258 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ October, 
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M. Prerre Vista, of Montpelier, France, an investigator of emi- 
nence, is visiting this country to study the diseases of the grape and of 
other cultivated plants. 
Cortss of the desiderata (Ranunculace to Rosacex incl.) of the 
herbarium of the Department of Agriculture, can be had on application 
to the Commissioner of Agriculture. 
Dr. V. F. Koste.etzky, professor of botany at Prague, died August 
18, aged 87. It will be remembered that our malvaceous genus Kosteletz- 
kya was named in his honor by Presl. 
AT THE RECENT meeting of the British Association Count Solms 
Laubach described a genus of fossil plants (Bennettites), the type of a 
new group between Angiosperms and Gymnosperms. 
THE FINDING of Grindelia squarrosa at Evanston, Ill., is recorded by 
L. N. Johnson in Science for September 23. It is a common ae in 
western Iowa and Minnesota, and especially on the plains of Dakota. 
Mr. James E. Humpurey, Dr. Goodale’s assistant in the summer 
school of botany at Cambridge last summer, has been appointed in- 
structor in botany at the State University, Bloomington, Ind., and has en- 
tered upon his duties there. 
AT THE recent Manchester meeting of the British Association on 
following grants were made for botanical work: Botany (an 200logy? 
of the West Indies, £100;-flora of China, £75; flora of Bahamas, £109; 
Peradenyia botanical station, £50. 
__ THE LECTURE of Miss Helen C, De S. Abbott, on “ Plant chemistry - 
illustrated in the production of sugar from sorghum,” has been beg’ 
uted as a reprint from the proceedings of the alumni association of 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 
THE FIRST NUMBER of the Annals Botany contains papers by Prof. 
Marshall Ward, Mr. Walter Gardiner Ad Mr. Tokaturo Ito, Miss Ci 
and Mr. L. A. Boodle, Messrs. Gregg, F. W. Oliver, Reynolds, see 9 oy 
igo emattd Balfour. Prof. Ward’s paper is on the histology and 1" 
mnus. 
MILLsPauGH’s American Medicinal Plants is completed with the a) 
arance of the sixth fascicle. The work is a valuable ovib) has been well 
one, and should be a great help to homeeopathic physicians. +t © ous 
188 colored illustrations, and eomplete text, of all the plants indigen ma 
and pale aliies in the United States, which have been proven and incor” 
porated in the Homeopathic Materia Medica. 
A NEW PERIODICAL devoted to botany has just been issued ab St. 
Petersburg. It is pubiished in eashesten with the botanical ga rene 
St. Petersburg University, the editors being Profs. Beketoff and | rele 
The title is Scripta Botanica Horti Universitatis Petropolitanze, which in 
erence will be abreviated to Scripta Botanica. A welcome feature 18 1” 
papers in Russian are followed by abstracts in French or German. 
THE souRcE of nitrogen in Leguminose has long been 20 interesting 
question. M. Hellriegel has attributed it to haoterks found abundantly 
in the well-known tubercles on the roots of this family. His ox ue - 
owed that plants deprived of bacteria were starved, while those “ 
