1892.] Notes and News. 99 
is interesting to those only familiar with the ordinary sequence. The 
intercalation of Apetale among Polypetale has long been a much de- 
sired change, and it is a good thing to have it put in this concrete way 
and applied to our North American plants. The changes in generic 
and specific nomenclature are mostly such as Professor Greene has 
already indicated in previous papers. 
OPEN LETTERS. 
The new herbarium pest. 
In reterence to the article in the December number, 1891, by Prof. C. 
V. Riley on the “New Herbarium Pest,” let me add my experience. 
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: .are now bottled for observations. This extraordinary 
tenacity of life increases the formidability of this pest— Dr. H. E. 
ASSE, Santa Monica, Calif. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
: ATE OF Kawnsas is spending $3500 in spreading the ento- 
ag Syycthen disease of chinch bas we the direction of Professor 
- H. Snow. 
PRorgssor W. C. WiLLiaMson, until recently at Owen’s College, 
Manchester, has changed his residence to 43 Elms Road, Clapham 
Common, London. 
haha SERENO Watson died March gth, at his home in Cambridge, 
N ass., after a prolonged illness resulting from an attack of “ la grippe. 
0 tidings since the death of Dr. Gray will cause botanists profounder 
Sorrow than this. 
Dr. THomas TayLor, the United States microscopist, is said to be 
all eng models of fungi for the Columbian Exposition, to include 
the edible varieties of the United States. 
v Tat Decemper NuMBER of the Microscopical Bulletin contains a 
“ry fine photogravure of Bacillus tuberculosis made from a pho 
mph taken with en’s 1-15 homogeneous immersion lens. 
HE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION work of the State University of Iowa 
embraces twelve lectures on “w d-making,” four of which are de- 
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Mebrig, Plants. The botanical lectures are sion by Professor T. H. 
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