200 The Botanical. Gazette. - [June, 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
M. Castuir RoumecurrE, editor of the Revue Mycologique died 
recently at his home in Toulouse. 
ee DIRECTOR of the botanical gardens of Palermo, A. Todaro, 
died on the r8th of April last. His successor is Dr. Hermann Ross. 
Dr. Epu REGEL, director of the Imperial Botanical Garden at 
St. Petersburg died on the 27th of April, at the age of 77. He 
been director of the St. Petersburg garden for nearly 4o years. 
THE CLAIMS of Ulota Ameriacna to autonomy are discussed by Dr. 
G. Venturi in a recent number of the Revue Bryologique, where he 
also considers several forms of American Orthotricha collected by 
R6ll and others in the northwest. ? 
THE SUMMER CLASSES 1n botany at Martha’s Vineyard, under the in- 
struction of Mr. Edward S. Burgess, will be held this year as usual, 
meeting from July 11 to August 12. Courses in structural and syste- 
matic botany and in histological botany will be offered. : 
A. ZAHLBRUCKNER has examined the changes proposed in certain 
genera of lichens by Kunze in his already notorious Revisio Generum 
Plantarum. Two of the names proposed are accepted; two are to be 
Mr. M. C. Cooke announces a handbook of Australian fungi of ae 
octavo pages and thirty-six partly colored plates. It is publis 
the trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden at the Mereantilé en 
in St. Louis on May 19. About eighty-five guests, of whom 
on, Wis., Revs. Stimson and Sn der, of St. Louis, and D. ©... 
Merriam, of Washington. Chacrblier Chaplin, of Washington ve 
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Arboretum during May and June for the purpose of New Bogan 
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be especially observed during the meeting the class will adjourn tf 
plantations and the nurseries of the Arboretum for an inform 
d to each meeting. An autumn course of fifteen meetings Wi : 
from September 7th to October 26th. This course will give: tumn 
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