NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. anD Mrs. T. S. Brandegee have removed to San Diego, taking 
with them their botanical library and herbarium. 
WITH THE CURRENT number (March) of Zoe, completing the fourth 
volume, it is announced that its publication will cease for the present. 
_ tv THE Bulletin of the Iowa State Board of Health, 7: 9, J. Christ- 
lan Bay gives a brief account of bacteriological work in medical 
science. ‘ 
PaRasitism or Nostoc and Chlorococcum upon Gunnera is treated 
by B. Jonsson in an illustrated article in the Botaniska Notiser for 
4, pp. I-20. 
_ THE MorE extensive use of pith in hand and microtome sectioning 
is pleaded for by Dr. A‘lfred C. Stokes in the February number of 
ueen’s Microscopical Bulletin. ; 
Dr. Tomas Moron, curator of Columbia College, died on Thurs- 
day, April 26th. A sketch of his life and botanical work will appear 
m the next number of the GAZETTE. 
» MOUGLAS H. Campse tt, of Stanford University, expects to sail 
for Europe early in June to be absent six months. He has in prepara- 
Yon a-general work on the archegoniates. 
8. F. H. KNow.ron has published in Bull. 105, U. S. Geol. ev, 
fe annotated list of the fossil plants of the Bozeman (Montana) coa 
leld, with a table of distribution, and descriptions of new species. 
Mr. Erwin F, Siru is editing a very interesting department of 
‘der the title “Memorabilia Botanica,” in which matters of 
“— terest and publication are presented in a full and attractive 
: Tue SP 
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. EcleS Of Isoetes of central France are characterized by 
“Abbe PF. Hy in Journal de Botanigue (March 1). The three. ili se 
Mice et as follows: Aquatica, three species; Amphibie, seve 
sa Hs, . ? 
Trestres, two species. 
ta HERBERT L. Jones will have charge of the summer course In 
ns " Yt Harvard ce summer. The pt course offered is one a 
dase? Bamic botany,” which means the general morphology an 
: Cation of flowering plants and ferns. 
Gols NUMERATION of the fungous flora of Portugal by P. A. seoroetpa 
g 2 da Sociedade Broteriana, 11: 9-70. 1893) gives 4 pact gation 
aT ee gas Of which the four groups of Agaricinee, Sphaeriacee, 
i “ce and Hyphomycetez embrace nearly two-thirds. : 
 Geated DIVISION, the Division of Agricultural Soils, has just been 
: Burean, wee’ US. Department of AB cooly i as apart of ae babies 
study oe tt Prof. Milton Whitney in charge. It is proposed to 
the relation of soil to crops and of soil physics. 
