1896 | NEWS IgI 
Dr. H. ScHENCK of Bonn, who was recently made professor extraordinary, 
has accepted the position of professor ordinary at the Polytechnicum at Darm- 
stadt and director of the botanic garden, to succeed Professor Dippel, who 
retires from active work. 
CouLTER’s Flora of Western Texas, published among the contributions 
from the United States National Herbarium, and issued in three parts, has 
been republished and bound into a single volume. The original edition of 
the first part had been entirely exhausted. 
Dr. E. Korune, of Friedenau bei Berlin, the well-known dendrologist 
and editor of the Botanisches Jahresbericht, has begun the issue of a ‘herba- 
rium dendrologicum adumbrationibus illustratum,”’ by the distribution of the 
first century. The generally poor representation of woody plants in herbaria 
ought to make this set of exsiccate particularly acceptable. 
PROFESSOR Dr. ComEs, who has been for some years engaged in a study 
of tobacco, offers seeds of a very large number of garden varieties, forms and 
their hybrids in exchange. He especially requests those who have any 
uncertain species or varieties of Vicotiana in their herbarium to send him 
Specimens for examination, which he will promptly return. He recognizes, 
in a tentative classification, six varieties of Nicotiana Tabacum and seven of 
N. rustica. 
PROFESSOR C, R. BARNES and Mr. F. D. Heald have recently sent to 
Press a second and very greatly enlarged edition of Barnes’ Keys fo the Mosses 
of North America, which is to be published about Oct. ist, as a Bulletin in 
the Science Series of the University of Wisconsin. It will make a work of 
from 175-200 pages, including not only a key to the published species, so far 
48 possible, but also collected descriptions of species not described by Les- 
quereux and James in the Manual, 
: ONE OF THE FEATURES of the Innsbruck botanical garden is the plant- 
us together of plants illustrating certain ecological relations. Professor Dr. 
Heinricher has arranged thirteen groups among which may be noted com- 
-plants, climbers, humus plants, parasites, plants with weapons, etc. A, 
the best representatives of each group, together with some culture 
S given in the Botanisches Centralblatt 66: 273. 1896. Other gardens 
ch §rouping are Berlin, Munich, and Ziirich. : 
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; MR. GEORGE W, VANDERBILT has imported from Europe what is con: 
Sidered to be the most valuable library on forestry in the world, for his Bilt- 
a estate. Mr. Vanderbilt has started forest culture on a large scale at 
Biltmore, under the management of Mr. Gifford Pinchot, and has built a 
umber of Cottages on his estate for the special use of students of forestry. 
