468 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [December 1902 



"It will be seen from the foregoing that the Amtales Mycologici are de- 

 stined to supply a long-felt want. In fact every mycologist will not be able 

 to get on without them, nor will any botanical museum be able to possess an 

 up-to-date library without taking in the new periodical.'* 



KiiCHi MiVAKE (Ph. D. Cornell 1902) has recently received an appoint- 

 ment from the government of Formosa for two years travel and study in 

 Europe. Dr. Miyake is a graduate of the Doshisha College in Japan, after- 

 ward spending four years at the Tokyo Imperial University, after which he 

 entered Cornell University in September 1899, where he has spent two years 

 in continuing his graduate work, giving especial attention to fertilization 

 and embryology in the Phycomycetes and in the Abietinae. 



POSTELSIA, the yearbook of the Minnesota seaside station, has ap- 

 peared, containing the following papers for igoi : Uses of marine algae m 

 Japan, by K. Yendo ; Remarks on the distribution of plants in Colorado, 

 east of the divide, by Francis Ramaley ; The phylogeny of the cotyledon, 

 by Harold L. Lyon ; Botanizing in Jamaica, by Eloise Butler ; Algae 

 collecting in the Hawaiian islands, by Josephine E. Tilden ; The distribu- 

 tion of marine algae in Japan, by K. Yendo; The kelps of* Juan de Fuca, by 



Conway MacMillan. 



From the New Phytologist we learn the following facts in reference to 

 some of the more important botanical papers read at the Belfast meeting of 

 the British Association, in addition to those recorded in BoT. Gaz. 34- 320- 

 1902. Z. C. BosE showed his experiments on the electrical response of 

 plant tissues to mechanical stimulation ; A. Macfayden gave an account 

 of the researches conducted by him and S, Rowland on the suspension of 



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life at low temperatures ; H. H. Dixon gave an account of some experi- 

 ments on the resistance of seeds to high temperatures ; MiSS Matthaei 

 presented a paper on the effect of temperature on carbon dioxide assimila- 

 tion ; F, W. Oliver gave a preliminary account of an investigation of 

 Torreya being made by him and Miss Edith Chick; Miss Margaret 

 Benson spoke of the seed-like fructifications of Miadesmia (Lycopodiales)» 

 and of a group of sporangia that may be the first known example of a spore- 

 producing member of the Cycadofilices ; L, Praeger read a paper on the 

 composition of the flora of northeastern Ireland. We have already noted 

 (BoT. Gaz. 34: 320. 1902) the papers of J. Reynolds Green (the president), 

 A. C. Seward and SybiUe Ford, J. C. Willis, Harold Wager, H. Wright, and 

 Messrs. Seward and Arber. 



