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ature pertaining to American fungi is small and easily collected, and will 
also tend to set on their guard those who, with imperfect knowledge, 
rush into print with descriptions of supposed new species. 
Over half the entries are the writings of fifteen authors; each of 
whom has contributed ten or more entries each. Two-fifths of these are 
foreigners, viz.: Fries 11 entries, Von Thiimen 11, Winter 12, Saccardo 13, 
Berkeley 30 and Cooke 71, total 148 entries; while three-fifths are Ameri- 
cans, viz.: Arthur 10 entries, Bessey 11, Leidy 11 (all pertaining to fungi 
parasitic on animals), Gerard and Trelease 12 each, Burrill 17, Farlow 31, 
Peck 40 and Ellis 50, total 194 entries. 
_ The slight biographical item of dates of birth, and in some cases 
of death appended to each author's name (with 43 exceptions) has its 
value. It brings out the interesting fact that over one-fourth of the Ameri- 
can writers enumerated (excluding the twenty-four names without data) 
were born either during or since 1850, and constitute 35 per cent. of those 
living at the beginning of the present year. They are also represented 
in the list of chief writers mentioned above. The large percentage of 
young investigators obviously promises an accelerated development of 
this field of science. Only four foreign writers occur whose births do 
hot antedate 1850, of whom Bagnis, now dead, Pirotta and Voglino are 
Italians, and Rostafinski a Pole. 
Other interesting statistics might be gleaned from this list, but space 
forbids. A supplement gives an account of ten exsiccati, three American 
and the others containing American specimens. : 
Every student of fungi will feel that he is indebted to the compilers 
for a valuable service, and one no other botanists were in position to 
perform so acceptably. ' 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
. _ Pror. G. ©. Wirrsrern died at Munich on June 1, in his seventy- 
eighth year. ' 
A CORRESPONDENT of the Revue Horticole reports the growth of mistleto 
on an old peach tree. 
Ty THE Journal of Botany, for September, R. Miller Christy has a 
Paper entitled “ Notes on the botany of Manitoba.” 
aed Dr. H. Mayr, of the Forestry Institute of the University of Munich, 
accepted a professorship in the University of Tokio. 
i. Dr. H. Vécurrnc, author of numerous important botanical works, 
been made professor of botany at the University of Tiibingen. 
Mr. ToxaTuro Iro gives an interesting account, in Journal of Botany, 
of fhe history of boty in Japan. It is accompanied by a portrait of Ito 
e. 
Keisu 
