1887. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE, 199 
THE “4 Rg thie ape tie of Cochin China — conferred upon Dr. 
Pierre a life pens 6,000 franes, to pie e for the uninterrupted 
completion of his Forst. Flora of Cochin China. “Nake ‘Now 
Dr. Epw . VON JANCZEWSKY has been made Professor of Anat- 
omy and Physioliey of Plants in the Univéiniee of Krak 
- ARTHUR has accepted the professorship of Ry in Purdue 
University, pending the establishment of an experiment on at the 
university. After Sept. 1 his address will be baleratee Indian 
Dr. E Bary, of the Botanical me at Strasburg, i been 
appointed Praianes: of Botany and Dir r of the se gaat dee of 
the University of Leipzig, to succeed Pr rot A. Schenk, who 
THE BULLETIN of the Calif. oe Sci., vol. ii., No. 6, has just ce — 
Of irc interest it contain . Greene’s “ Studies in the Botan ny o 
California and Parts Adj mci ¢ 2 already noticed on p. 346, vol. xi. 
Dr. N TOWNSHEND delivered ve address eo the Columbus 
Horticultural gigi at their meeting on May 28,on “ Botany in the 
olden time.” The addressis printed in ‘he Fame. the society for May. 
IN THE proceedings of the hee 4 Nat. Hist. Society, a lecture by 
Prof. W. W. Bailey on the “Flora of Rhode Island” is published. It is 
full of apse ne me at the close abkes a telling appeal oe herbaria alt 
botanic garde 
THE. 
ures Araujia teas (a nae American ascley piad) asa moth trap. The 
moth is caught by its proboscis in searching ie nectar, and the more it 
Bot the deamntct the grip, something on the principle of an old-fashioned 
y. Francis WoLLES new work on the “ Freshawatne Algee of the 
Wien States.” which has just been issued, consists of two volumes, one of 
plates and one of text. It is published by the author, and sold for ten 
dollars, which is less than ag the Rare of Cooke’s “ British Fresh: water 
oe: ” a similar but emails 
Dr. GEorGE Vasey, botanist tthe cae - Agriculture, has 
published his third bulletin. The su bject is, “ Grasses of the South,” : 
pamphlet of 63 pages and 16 plates. Dr. Vasey is doing a valuable wor 
in getting at the needs of various regions and — inating knowledge 
pgs the cultivation - pee and ae HY 
from a review in G 3 nicle is a sample : “ As for the edible spe- 
“les, perhaps the less said of them the better; possibl e of our se 
jaws were powerful enough) to masticate woody and leathery fc ois 
accom panied by sheets of dry rot peeled ee ety logs, with 
of shivering, cold and loathsome Tremellas 
