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NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. Oskar Loew ofthe Un i i 
2 aaa EW O} iversity of Munich has been called to 
a of Tokio as professor of agricultural chemistry. 
y.C. F. MaxweELt, of Dublin, Texas, is en i 
ee } , ; ; gaged on drawings of 
te of western Texas which he expects to publish next Lahtiet 
ia estyle of Kellogg’s West American Oaks. 
cert AND DISCUSSIONS before the Society for the Promotion 
! a, tural Science at its Madison meeting occupy the larger part 
ug.-Sept. number of Agricultural Science. 
well known work on “Plant 
the University of Dorpat, 
d to Bern, Switzerland. 
a a 
a ji 
| Sega DRaGENpDoRFF, author of the 
Russ, ge and professor of pharmacy in 
ia, has resigned his position and remove 
+ the Sedan P. SORAUER resigned, October first, the directorship of 
many he Station for Vegetable Physiology at Proskau, Ger- 
“his Dkr Rudolf Aderhold of Geisenheim has been appointed 
4 
J 
| ee i Sronr, who has been studying 2 
sssor of s laboratory at Leipzig, has been app ted assistant pro- 
herst. H otany in the Massachusetts Agricultural C 
T - He will give particular attention to physiological botany. 
vai : BJECT AND METHODS of seed investigation and the establish- 
of seed control stations are carefully and ably treated by YT 
in the Axperiment Station 
| contains very full informa- 
Bree SIXTH, ANNUAL REPORT (1892-3) 
- pls g in Chicago, shows a remarkably large am 
Tiseke .00 the bacteriological department, 1? charge ° j 
8nd 280 of nples of yeast 1105 of et 
- gag di water. The results are instructive 0 others beside tho 
= . €d in the brewing industry. 
| A RECENT NUMBER Of Studi m the biological la 
i i o wales fre 
: mm opkins University (vol. v, a7 1893) “"p, Lotsy presents 
ts regarding the structure of cypress knees, c ‘ 
-W. Bart ngous spores present and occasional mycelium, and | ee 
_ Sichidi on describes and illustrates the origin and developmen 
_“tidia and tetrasporangia in Dasya ¢€ egans. 
announc 
a. Tue FOLLOWING NEW BOOKS have been for early publi- 
» by E. Warming; trans 
lated 
—htin& Co: « : i ” a . 
a 0.: “Practical physiology of plants, by ¥- ; . 
ean from the Cambradet Teiveunits press; oA wee text 
| ‘ otany,” by Sidney H. Vines, copiously illustrate’ 
lone. ANNUAL report of the Vermont Experiment Stan pes 
Lato, ae resting matter upon plant diseases, especially © the simi- 
, apple, cucumber and lettuce, by L. R Jones. *? ; 
