NOTES AND NEWS. 
M. Gaston BonNIER has been honored with the title “Chevalier de 
la legion d’honneur.” 
Dr. W. G. Fartow is publishing in Garden and Forest a series of 
illustrated papers entitled “Notes for Mushroom-eaters. 
Dr. Paut Soraver has retired from the directorship of the Physio- 
logical Experiment Station at Proskau, and Dr. R. Aderhold has taken 
is place. 
M. S. Bess and Dr. THos. Moronc are both in Florida on ac- 
count of their health; the former at Clearwater Harbor, the latter at 
Jacksonville. . 
Dr. Orro Kuntze has spent the winter in Capetown, “in search of 
health,” as he writes. He intends to go over Capeland, Transvaal to 
Natal, and return to Germany next May. 
Mr. C. R. Orcurr has begun an extensive collecting trip, in which 
he will be en aged until fall, devoted chiefly to the Cactacee. He is 
pow in the Colorado Desert, from whence he will go to the Mojave 
Ssert, and then east to Texas and to the City of Mexico. 
BULLETIN 37 of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, prepared by 
ritestor E. S. Goff, gives a very full account of the Russian thistle, 
jit a fine illustration, among others, of a plant three feet in diameter 
rhe mr S.C eney, growing within a mile of the city of 
ison. J 
J.K. Hasskar_, once joint director of the botanic garden at Buit- 
enzorg, Java, 
distingui is 1 f the Cinchona 
culture there, SS porta through his introduction o 
Stances although h 
Tevenue reckoned 
at Cleve on the 5th of January in moderate circum- 
€ had provided his native country with a yearly 
by millions.—Aiinch. allg. Zeitung. 
mae MEETING of the Botanical Society of Munich on January 
the for t. F. Brand described and illustrated by herbarium specimens 
distin ms of the leaves of Nympheacez. He finds three sorts readily 
and Bushable. These are the submersed leaves, the floating leaves 
different. tial leaves, These are not only structurally but functionally 
es H. Pammet is the author of the following articles published 
-ransactions of the Iowa Horticultural Society for 1892, re- 
Crosgi tributed: Climate and its effects on the quality of apples. 
Cases of t of cucurbits, Fruit rots and their prevention, Fungous dis- 
Academy oeeaee The volume includes the proceedings of the Iowa . 
Pamme!” of 
Science for 1892 (113 pp.), also containing papers by Prof. 
In d 
ils Bataniste (Jan. 15), the editor, M. Dangeard, presents a paper, 
by four Plates, on the sexual reproduction of fungi; in 
