306 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [OCTOBER 
THE ADDRESS of Dr. William Trelease, on “Medical Botany,” presented 
last June to the section on materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics, at the 
forty-eighth annual meeting of the American Medical Association, at Phila- 
delphia, has just been distributed as a reprint from the Jour. Amer. Med. Ass. 
THE BoTaNICAL SOCIETY of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburg) has met 
with great success in its series of popular monthly lectures. The natural 
orders of plants were explained and illustrated by Mr. Wm. Falconer on 
the evening of September 2 to a crowded audience. The illustrative 
material represented 79 orders and 215 genera, and often several species 
for each genus; it was donated to the society by Mr. John Dunbar, of 
Rochester, N. Y., Mr. Henry A. Dreer, of Philadelphia, and the superintend- 
ent of Schenley Park, Pittsburg. This was the fourth lecture of the series. 
ATTENTION should be called to another botanical journal which has 
entered the field asa popular magazine. The Asa Gray Bulletin, with its June 
number, ceased to be the organ of a chapter of the Agassiz Association, and 
entered upon the larger field. As was said in a recent notice of the newly 
established Plant World, there is abundant demand fora journal of this type- 
With G. H. Hicks as editor in chief, A. J. Pieters and C. C. DuBois as asso- 
ciate editors, and L. H. Dewey as business editor, we anticipate for the journal 
a most worthy support. Zhe Asa Gray Bulletin is published bimonthly at 
Washington, D. C., and the subscription price is fifty cents. 
WitTH Its September number, the American Naturalist comes into pos- 
session of new proprietors and under the charge of new editors. It makes no 
large promises, but seeks to define its raison d’étre. The new editor, as 
already announced, is Dr. R. P. Bigelow, of Boston; while among the asso- 
aay ciate ettecns we find the names of the following botanists: C. E. Bessey, D. es 
iba H. Campbell, H. M. Richards, E. F. Smith and W. Trelease. There is cer- 
; tainly a field for such a journal, and the responsible names connected with fo). 
ee , are pledges of a very high character. In the first number the department of eee 
per hae does not express i itself very prominently, but it will doubtless make 
itself felt later. 
AN INTERESTING LisT of the ead of the Kewgardens hasbeen 
ished in the Budletin of Miscellaneous Information for April. It is @ 
rich flora, as is perhaps to be expected when one considers the large annual ae 
influx of plants to Kew from all parts of the globe. “ By this means mE ae 
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