: Senge EMBERS of the Society for the Promotion of Agricult 
ee, 
13] Notes and News. 401 
Tue Lirz and works of Dr. George Vasey are treated in an apprecia- 
tive article by Dr. Wm. Frear in the June number of Agricultural Sci- 
mt,accompanied by a portrait. 
Mr. Ropney H. True, lately Fellow in Botany at the University of 
Wisconsin, has sailed for Germany, where he intends devoting espec- 
alattention to vegetable physiology under Pfeffer and others. 
A stRIKING illustration of the value of pure culture methods in the 
udy of fungi is furnished by results obtained by Dr. H. Klebahn of 
Bremen, In an investigation of the pine rust he was enabled to 
identify six distinct species, all of which had been referred by most 
authors preceding him to a single species, Peridermium Pini (Willd.) 
re. 
Kleb.—L, § 
MATURE PERITHECIA of the European grape mildew, Oidium Tuck- 
, Were found in France last November, by G. Conderc (Compt. rend. 
Tar SUNDEWS can ca i lmost incredible, but 
pture butterflies seems almost 1 me 
Prof. J. W. HL Trail in the July Annads of Scottish Natural History, 
a observing upwards of a dozen of the small heath butterfly, 
ole co caught by the little Drosera Anglica, near Aberdeen, 
A New SERIES of fungi exsiccatr Ellis and B. M. 
ung exsiccatt 1s announced by J. B. Elh 
itera 'o be entitled Fungi Columbiani, the first century to be ree 
tend o It will include only fungi that have already 
| kind Pd in the issues of the North American Fungi, and is thus a 
e fir I 
ail be da of the earlier volumes are exhausted. ‘The proposed series 
5 
| be RECTION, In the Gazerre for September, in speaking of the 
ip ibi j riment 
“ations at heat made by the agricultural colleges and experime 
ro 
ter ne collection of Gymnosporangia was sent by 
te ural 
‘enty pee: jection of 
creased at the Madison meeti y the € fata: 
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AL Bol ‘a Spas he including the follows roe FD. 
