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their structural characters unchanged, Lemaire proposes? the following 
method: Fj saturated watery solution of uranic acetate, with 
Miss ANNA Murray Vai. has published in Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 
(March 24) the result of a study of Psoralea in America. Twenty-one 
Species of palmate-leaved forms are defined, and 14 species of pinnate- 
leaved forms 
necessary than usual in such a revision and but one or two new spe- 
, . Otto Kuntze is not followed in transferring 
all the species to Lotodes Siegesbeck. 
Forscuuncs-BERICHTE ber Lebensmittel und ihre Beziehungen 
tur Hygiene, iiber forense Chemie und Pharmakognosie is the title of 
pew journal edited by R. Emmerich, K. Goebel, A. Hilger, L. 
Pfeiffer, and R. Sendtner, all of Munich. Dr. E. Wolff’s new scien- 
tific publishing house in Munich will publish the journal. No. 1 con- 
ns the beginning of a paper on the anatomy of the Cinnamomum 
ark, by R. Pfister (pp. 6-13). The list of contributors includes many 
distinguished names.— Bay. 
THE MEMBER 
: €0. L. Goodale of Harvard University, and Dr. Albert 
Schneider of Illinois Experiment Station. 
the ROFESSOR E..L. G 
The omPositee, In Erythea (April) the “Astere” are considered. 
ing claimed that there is such a thing as a genus 
ag net from Aster if it is stripped of its disguising a pet 
exclude N would, therefore, raise Euthamia to generic rank, and also 
ferred 0 ak SChrysoma. Several species, also, that have se re- 
8enus Proc are brought together under Sir William Hooker’s 
Two VIGOR: : 4 Bek: 
Meth Sus articles in disapproving criticism of the present 
ay teaching botany in the weocnie schools have lately ap- 
sity; th Science. One is by Miss K. E. Golden, of Purdue Univer- 
Trasoett by Geo. H ne 
. ough severe. is h he will reprint 
art » 1S sadly too true. We ope : 
; ape mhere aS many teachers as possible will see it. € are 
advance / n the period of the renaissance for elementary as well as 
‘struction in botany. 
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