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NOTES AND NEWS. 
R. B. D. HALSTED is spending his winter vacation at Passaic, N. J., 
his old. home. 
THE CONCEPTION of species in cryptogamic botany ” is the title of a 
paper by by Dr. W. G. Farlow read before the Boston Society of Natural 
istory at its November meetin 
AS BEEN found that hecbivaroas tish aid largely in a ee 
algee, numerous species being found in the stomachs of such fish. Very 
oiten the fertile portions are eaten and the viable spores vale 
Dr. J. W. EcKFELD? and W. W. Calkins have begun an enumeration 
of the lichen flora of Florida in the Journal of Mycology for November. 
The first installment embraces 146 numLers, and reaches Ceenogonium. 
EPARATE author’s edition of the report for 1886 of the mycologist 
‘to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Prof. . Scribner, has bee 
tributed. It contains forty-four pages, seven plates, three maps and one 
ea HERMANN VOCHTING Dee been called to the Professorship of Bot- 
any in the Universi ity of Tiibingen, and Dr. Klebs, privat docent at Tii- 
bingen, to the professor’s chair a the University of Basel, vacated by Dr. 
ps 
HE August GAZETTE (p. 199) we made the unintentional blunder 
of aS aounuiie that Dr. DeBary had been appointed professor at Leipzig 
ae Prof. A. Schenk. Instead of Dr. DeBary, it should have read 
ro fie 
v. F. D, Ketsry, of Helena, Montana, recently delivered a lecture 
elore | ae teachers’ institute of gn and Clarke counties, entitled, “A 
bird’s-eye view of botany,” in which hes ave an outline of the history of 
botan vd and an explanation of modern classification 
TH estern oe acter Society, of Pittabureh, has elected 
ig following officers for the coming year: John D. Shafer, pee 
oenig, vice-president ; ise Willa nore yy, recording secretary ; 
Prof. B. H. Patt terson, corresponding secretary ; . Mellor, treasurer. 
SomE marked differences between the typical Acer saccharinum and 
the variety nigrum are pointed out and _ illustrated by Prof. L. 
Bailey, Jr., in FP.pular Gardening for November. The chie [aiterences lie 
a the apepe and size of the fruit, gh: in the contour and habit of the 
ga E ELECTRIC lighting of the — Palace at St. oo has 
brought great damage to the ornamental used for decoration. The 
com a illumination of the room for a eats he is pir to ca — 
the leaves to turn yellow, dry up, ego ultimate ely to fall off. The cele- 
brated ies of palms has especially s 
AN eekly journal of ae oF scape gardening and os 
estry, entitled Sylva, is to be started early in the new year, under 
edito orship of P spa Charles S. Sitges of Harvard College. It one 
Si aac uthority on questions coming within its scope, a and will prove a 
welcome addition: to sefentifiog-peaciont literature. 
