474 The Botanical Gazette. [November, 
the growing point. It isnot a phenomenon of secondary growth. 
It may be that in other plants other external agents, notably gravity, 
produce an effect, and he promises investigation of this and similar 
questions. 
formed opinions concerning the nature and value of Rafinesque 
work which are quite erroneous. e volume will be in the sumptu- 
ous quarto form adopted by the Filson Club, the edition limited to five 
hundred copies, and issued in paper only. It will contain several full- 
page illustrations, one of which will be a portrait of its subject. A 
complete bibliography of the writings of Rafinesque, on every subject, 
comprising over four hundred titles, will be included. 
VERY CONSIDERABLE changes and advances are being made in the 
shrubs grouped principally in their natural orders, but at the same 
er, has been made instructor in bd aa are 
botany. The laboratories have been liberally equipped with ad - 
tional 9h Reagan and new courses, including graduate work, are being 
offered. 
ho lived 
R. Moritz Trause, one of the many genial naturalists w 
Traube 
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and worked at Breslau, Germany, died on the 28th of June. | His 
was born at Ratibor and studied at the University of Berlin. 1) 
brother, Ludwig Traube the distinguished clinic, was engaged in med- 
i : ; when the 
orie der d’ 
Zellbildung und Endosmose in Reichert’s and Du Bois Reymo 
Archiv, —: 87. 1867, and his many valuable papers in the Berté + on 
deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft, 1874, 1876, and later. His wor 
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