400 The Botanical Gazette. {October 
Japan should follow suit! Yet every one of these countries publishes 
nearly as much, and several of them more, first class botanical work 
than is produced in America. How much good would it do Ameri- 
can or German or French botanists to have an elaborate year-book in 
Russian, Polish, Hungarian or Japanese 
ericans such a bibliography as that proposed by Mr. B 
would be of little value since they are generally well acquainted wi 
the literature as it issues. To foreigners it would simply call for aa 
extra expense to obtain in an unfamiliar tongue what they have aright — 
to expect to find in Botanisches Centralblatt or Bot. Jahresbericht. 
If the year-book is to reach the widest circle of readers abroad;it 
should by all means be issued in German or French, or be translated 
as soon as possible after publication as are Famintzin’s Uebersichten 
tiber die Leistungen auf dem Gebiete der Botanik in Russland. 
‘It is very doubtful whether a publisher could be obtained for such 
a year-report in German or French unless the author would assume 
financial responsibility. ° ; 
If the work is to obtain the greatest confidence it should be com 
ducted under the auspices of some society or association of re er 
standing. Famintzin’s reports mentioned above are published by x 
der of the Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, the highest sciemt: — 
fic body in Russia. : tthe 
It seems very clear to me that the energy required to carry vftable 7 
project outlined by Mr. Bay might be spent in some more pF Be 
manner. For instance, prompt and 
to Prof. Keehne. Of course some persons might feel aggrie ed 
their second or third rate paper did not receive a gs 7 
ary two-page notice and might long for a more sympathetic Fev" 
gan of our own, yet such reasons are hardly sufficient to 
outlay of time and money proposed. piblie- 
It should be ude aoe: that outside of Coe pany rater 
graphic journals and reports have almost uniformly faile 
ears of precarious existence. es 
A If she French and Italian botanists and American Easy oot 
able to do without such a year-book it seems quite pro T. SwiNcl 
own need of such a work is more fancied than real.—W. Eustis, Put 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Subtropical Laboratory, 
ida. 
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NOTES AND NEWS. ‘cai ott 
Pror. J. E. Humpurey, formerly of the Agricaltara in St 
es of Massachusetts, intends to spend the comung : 
urger’s laboratory at Bonn. jn 
N THE January number of the current volute ot — ime f 
wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift Dr. F. Ludwi describes ag: identical '** 
caused by one of the discomycetes which he says. 
Ascobolus. Costantini Roll.—L.S. C. 
