NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. FREDERICK LE Roy SarGENT has a series of articles on the 
pollination of orchids in the recent numbers of the Popular Science 
Vews. : 
.T. H. Kearney, JR., has been appointed to the curatorship of 
the Columbia College herbarium, as successor to Dr. Morong, de- 
ceased. 
Boxorny has shown experimentally (Archiv. £, Hyg. 20:—.1894) that 
chlorophyll-bearing aquatic plants are highly efficient in purifying 
natural waters containing sewerage. 
IN THE ANNUAL REPORT of the Connecticut Station for 1893 Dr. W. 
C. Sturgis gives (pp. 72-111) information about many plant diseases 
with much helpful matter relating to treatment. 
PEACH YELLOWS AND ROSETTE are ably described and discussed by 
Dr. Erwin F. Smith in a twenty page bulletin from the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, no. 17 of the farmers’ series. 
THE SECOND ANNUAL REPORT of the Ohio Academy of Sassi 
pamphlet of 52 pages. It includes seventeen short papers OF 
stracts relating to botany, several of which are lists of Ohio plants. 
Ind., to pie 
A Science Cuus has been organized at Indianapolis, owship 
mote local interest in scientific subjects and foster good fe red i 
among resident scientists. Pleasant club rooms have been sect 
the Denison Hotel. Mr. John S. Wright is the present secretly lv 
MATERIAL FOR CLASS use, both alcoholic and dry, and also pees 
ing material, can be obtained of the Cambridge Botanical ae buy 
This will prove a great service to many teachers who pre es theit 
te than to collect, or who need some special sorts to att > 
ist. 
IN RECENT NUMBERS of the Bethefte sum Botanischen C eet : 
Dr. A. Zimmermann has gathered together the recent eee impot- 
ing to the plant cell and has presented a summary of the m 
tant contributions. This supplements his work Die Pflan 
brings information up to date in a most useful manne!. le 
Bacterium Zopri has been found by Boyce and Centr Batt 
strongly apogeotropic when grown in nutrien ( : 
u. Par. 15: 568), and by Beyerinck to be the 
The last investigator suggests that the sensitiven ed 
less enables the organism to more readily penetrate te oe 
for it is parasitic upon the domestic fowl. sorption of 
A CRITICAL NoTICE of Mr. Ganong’s paper Bre at 
water by the green parts of plants (this journal, @™"> 0. ie 
ee ae " Sand issued), Written 
Christian Bay. The methods employed are severely a 
