280 The Botanical Gazette. Uh, : 
_ 5. The work ought to be undertaken by a committee, and the liter 
ature treated after some such plan as the following: ; 
1. Periodicals, Reports of societies. 2. Text- and hand-books 
nomenclature. 3. Classification. a, Phanerogame. J, Cryptogame — 
4. Floras; a, of North America, 4, of other countries. 5. Mor 
hology. 6. Anatomy. 7. Physiology (including Biol 
Travels. 11. Horticultural botany. 12. Agricultural botany. 1} i 
Pee 
: time to such a work, doing tht 
I should be glad to give some of my time f the reviews the 
ature bearing on the subjects named above under 6, 7; § which 
could bring the matter before the meeting at Madison. 4 
amount of material that I have brought together, it ere es fll 
by properly attending to the matter to issue a report 10F . 
—J. Curistian Bay, Afissouri Botanical Garden. 
NOTES AND NEWS. oid : 
Tue Linn#ZAN medal was recently presented to oy 7 
for many years curator of the herbarium at 4ew: + Pane 
Mr. D. T. MacDoueat, recently assistant In born ysiolOgY at 
versity, has been appointed instructor in vegetable P 
University of Minnesota. ‘ated Diree™ 
Dr. Pax, of the University of Berlin, pre pace position ms 
of the Botanic Gardens at the University of é 
vacant by the death of Dr. Prantl. cnland bi C 
THE University of Minnesota has establiens Minnesots 
station at Gull Lake. The pee is in Cass county, wes 
station is reached from Brainerd. ncceeded 
sucoee foro 
Miss Atice Eastwoop, formerly of Denver, Coot the 
Katherine Brandegee, as curator of the ¢ Zoe. 
Academy of Sciences, and as acting editor of ” 
