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species are described, and the whole revision gives evidence of a very 
painstaking work. 4. Systematic and alphabetic index of new species 
of North American Phanerogams and Pteridophytes, published in 
1891, compiled by Josephine A. Clark. This index supplies a very 
great desideratum, and is properly supplied to botanists by the govern- 
ment. There is also in preparation an index covering preceding 
years back to 1885, and the promise is given hereafter of an annual 
index. It is startling to find that a list of the new species of North 
American vascular plants published in a single year occupies nearly 
24 pages, but the number is very much reduced when it is noticed that 
all changes in nomenclature which have involved new combinations 
are included. The Division of Botany has put students of systematic 
Botany under great obligation in preparing this index and in promis- 
ing its continuance. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Rev. F. D. Ketsry, of Helena, Montana, has accepted the chair of 
Botany at Oberlin College. He is to spend the winter and spring at 
Harvard University. 
Dr. R. Cuopat, Professor of Botany at thé University of Geneva, 
Switzerland, desires copies of papers written by American botanists 
or the library of the university. 
THE FUNGOUS DISEASES OF Iowa CEREALS are briefly treated by Prof- 
L. H. Pammel, especially the rusts and smuts, in a recent Bulletin 
(No. 18) of the Iowa Experiment Station. 
PRESENTATION EXERCISES were held October 15th, by the botanical. 
seminary of the University of Nebraska, when a bust of Darwin was 
placed in the Herbarium of the University. 
Mr. J. B. Farmer, for some time past demonstrator of botany at 
Oxford University, has been appointed assistant professor of botany at 
the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, as successor to Dr. 
D. H. Scott, who has gone to the Jodell Laboratory at Kew. 
In a handsomely printed pamphlet of 78 pages, Professor J. 
Humphrey gives a very pein tant eet of Am st Trees. The 
work is designed primarily for the citizens of Amherst, but it conan 
much valuable information for the general reader, and notes that wi 
be of use to the professional botanist. 
