NEWS. 



Dr. Theodor von Heldreich, director of the Botanical Gardens at 

 Athens, died recently at the age of eighty years. 



Professor A. Engler, of the University of Berlin, has been for some 

 time engaged in a botanical expedition to Africa. 



Professor F. E. Weiss, of Owens College, Manchester, England, has 

 been visiting some of the prominent botanical laboratories of the United 

 States. 



In the new edition of his Plant Breeding, which will probably be in 

 the market next month, Professor Bailey will include a full presentation of 

 the recent theories of De Vries and Mendel. 



Dr. E. Perceval Wright, Professor of Botany at Dublin University, 

 calls attention to the fact that the Herbarium of Trinity College contains such 

 collections as Harvey's extensive series of Algae, Thomas Coulter's collection 

 of Californian plants, etc., and has kindly offered to give any information m 

 his power concerning them, 



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Erratum. — In Mr, Chandler's paper on Nemophila (BoT. Gaz, 34 : 194- 

 215. ph. 5-5. 1902), the legends of Plates /Fand Fshould be interchanged, 



_ N. exilis Eastwood, and Plate K being N. parviflora Dougl- 

 As a consequence, the two plate numbers should be interchanged in the 



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"Explanation of plates/* p. 215, 



According to a recent estimate made by the Bureau of Forestry into 

 the losses from forest fires, the conclusion is reached that in an average year 

 60 human lives are lost, $25,000,000 worth of real property is destroyed, 

 10,274,089 acres of timber land are burned over, and young forest growth 

 worth at the lowest estimate $75,000,000 is killed. 



Sargent's Silva of North America is complete with the publication 

 of volumes XIII and XIV this autumn. This great work has been twelve 

 years in preparation, contains 750 plates from drawings by C. E. Faxon, and 

 describes and illustrates 567 species of American trees north of Mexico. A 

 new work only less extensive, by the same author and artist, and entitled 

 Trees and Shrubs, will begin to appear this autumn. It will be published in 

 several large quarto volumes, with four parts to a volume, and will illustrate 

 new or little known woody plants, especially those of the northern hemisphere 

 which may be expected to flourish in the gardens of the United States and 

 Europe. 



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