PROFESSOR W. BELAJEFF, of the University of Warsaw, has been 
appointed director of the botanic garden of Warsaw. 
Miss ANNA ARMA Smirtu has been appointed assistant in botany in Mt. 
Holyoke College. 
Dr. A. O. KIHLMAN, docent in the University of Helsingfors, has been 
promoted to an assistant professorship of botany. 
OIL DISTILLED from birch tar is coming into increased use for imparting 
the characteristic odor of Russia leather to all sorts of thin leather in the 
manufacture of fancy articles." 
Mr. Epwin B. ULINE has just received the Doctor’s degree from the 
University of Berlin, where he has been at work for two and a half years. He 
will return to America early in January. 
ATTENTION is called to the fact that the authorized agent in Germany for 
_ the BoTANICAL GAZETTE is now the well-known publishing firm of Gebriider 
_ Borntraeger, 46, den Schénebergerstrasse 17a, Berlin, S. W. 
THE STATES of Michigan, New York, and Indiana, together with a few 
‘Scattered localities, produced this year about 250,000 kilos of peppermint oil, 
as against less than 200,000 for 1896. About one-third the total product is 
sent to Germany. 
‘THE sets of Colorado plants prepared by Mr. C. F. Baker during 1896, 
and advertised in this journal, have all been sold. The specimens were 
well selected and preserved, and were mostly purchased by the larger insti- 
: - tutions and added to the working herbaria. 
THE NINTH SECTION of the wall charts of Professor Kny, consisting of 
_ plates g1—100, has recently been issued by Paul Parey, Berlin. These illus- 
trate the structure and development of the glandular hairs of lupine ; the 
pollination of Aristolochia Clematitis; and the development of Aspidium 
Filix-mas. To the latter, eight of the ten plates are devoted. 
THE WASTE CEDAR from lead Lemete factories i is the chief source of the 
