72 BOTANICAL GAZETTE {JULY 
based upon specimens exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, which became 
the property of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Wisconsin. 
THE BERLIN ACADEMY of Sciences offers a prize of J/ 2000 for a mem- 
oir based upon researches and observations on the origin and behavior of 
varieties of cereals during the past twenty years. The memoir may be written 
in German, Latin, French, English, or Italian, and must be presented by 
December 31, 1898. 
THE CHAIR in the College of Pharmacy of Philadelphia occupied by the 
late Dr. Bastin has been divided. Dr. Low who was Dr. Bastin’s assist- 
ant has been given charge of materia medica and pharmacognosy, and Pro- 
fessor Henry Kraemer of the Northwestern University is placed in charge of 
botany and microscopy. 
Dr. EpmunpD Russow, well known for his earlier researches on plant 
anatomy and his later ones on the Sphagnacez, died in Dorpat on the 
11th of April. In recognition of his long and eminent services he was 
appointed some years ago professor emeritus in the University of Dorpat. 
He was also a councilor-of-state. 
LupwIG, commenting upon Zukal’s oversight of Thaxter’s Myxobacter- 
iacee,‘ previously criticised in this journal,2 makes matters rather worse for 
Zukal by pointing out that Thaxter’s publication had been abstracted in 18 
both in the Bethefte zum Botanisches Centralblatt and Centralblatt fir 
Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde. 
THE SECTION of mathematics and natural science of the Prince Jablo- 
nowski Society at Leipzig offers a prize of M7 1000 for the best study of the 
causes which produce and control the direction of the lateral axes of shoot 
and root systems. The memoir must be submitted to the secretary of the 
society by the 30th of November, Igoo. 
Mr. FREDERICK C, STRAUB died in Liberia, Africa, March 21, at the age 
of twenty-six. He had accompanied Mr. O. F. Cook in 1895 in his botanical 
exploration of the west coast, and remained there during last summer. He 
was engaged in collecting plants and in overseeing the plantation that is 
organized in Liberia for practical educational purposes. He fell a victim to 
the jungle fever. 
* Bot. Centralbl. 69 : 352. 1897. 
723: 205. 1807 
