28 The, Botanical Gazette. [January, 
clearer than this. In fact itis in the plant world that we must loo 
for much of our testimony along the more ot lines of biologiedl 
cnc. chan it is the duty of botanists to clear u es conte of 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
E VENERABLE curator of the botanical museum at Berlin, Fried- 
rich Karl Dietrich, is dead at the age of 85. 
DURING THE year 1890 42,646 specimens were added to the Her- 
barium of the British Museum, according to the report just " published 
Mr. A. S. Hitcucock, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, has been 
spnoned Us Professor of Botany i in the Agricultural College of Kansas 
a 
Mr. P. ios, recently connected with the Iowa Agricultural 
College, a t Am mes, has been appointed botanist and page et of 
the Florida oe en ee. Station at Lake City, F 
AM WEST a paper in the December number of the 
Journal of Soiies on Hg tresl wanes Algae of Maine, in which three’ 
new species and several new ction Pg described. There are also 
notes on other species of the collec 
R. ORTLOFF of Coburg ndadee amen, has just issued” 
- a series rol photo i ig reproductions of the stem-leaves of Sphag- 
- num which are o much diagnostic importance in the discrimina- 
pnts of the polymexphie species of this genus. The series contains 63 
L. H. Barrey has been appointed special agent of the United 
Stat tes W eather Bureau to make a a = phenotony; and desires 
secre to all records voce the elon of oy ie to the times of 
aS R B. CaL = fins A em an account of the silicified wood of E. 
Arkansas in the 4 n Journal of Science (Nov. 1891), in which he 
conchides that they 3 ate “all Pertery (Eocene), are silicified lignite, and 
as yet of no taxonomic value in determining relative ages in t the 
Tera series 
TH i fscisacioons of the late Dr. S. O. Lindberg has been ac 
quired ie ee University of Helsingfors. Exclusive of duplicates am 
_ of numerous exsiccati the collection contains 5,046 species represent ted 
