302 The Botanical Gazette. [September, 
relative importance of subjects, and these I admit are a little in ad 
f the times. Int 
vance of t five years that I worked there I frequently 
heard the value of botany insisted upon for training children an 
also hear tin emphasize the necessity o ying anim: 
and vegetable forms together as in the general biolo zB 
ve the pleasing suggestion that botanical work is of 
value for training children! It would be di cult to more 
perfect exhibition of the spirit with whic pbell came to his 
mit a man to graduate from a five years course in biology with the 
notion that the science of our food-supply, to put it upon a purely 
economic basis to say nothing of any other, is a fit thing to amuse 
: Iti : 
children with 1s, too, an interesting thing to note in these days of 
specialization, that it is the zodlogist who wishes to talk of “biology 
hi al y a synonym of t phrase, “natural his 
tory”); while the botanists, recognising the twin sciences, are Wi 
to give each a place and name tis possible that the botanists ate 
somewhat in advance of the es, as Dr. lw a. 
the training of children.—Conway MacMittan, University of Minne 
sola, Minneapolis, 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
: ‘ng the study 
Mr. W. W. Carkins has some interesting words regarding the 
of lichens in America, in Science for August 26. oe 
Prorrssor Gro. F. Arkrnson has been appointed Assistant Pro 
sor of Cryptogamic Botany at Cornell University. versit 
. i , 
Mr. Henry E. SEATON, Instructor in Botany in ine nt 
has been appointed Assistant Curator at the Harvard Her 
é S ; Depart 
Dr. GeorcE Vasry is the accredited representative fe 
ment of Agriculture and Smithsonian Institution to the 
Congress of Botanists at Genoa. 
A PRESENTATION of the question of priority in 
ture from the ethical point of view is given by Pro 
In Sctence for Aug. 26 (xx, 16). 
st nomencla- 
yor, M. Underwood 
