NEWS. 
SOME OF THE treasures of the library of the Missouri Botanical Garden 
are described by Miss Eva M. Reed in the April number of the S¢ Louis 
Public Library Magazine. A \ist of the best botanical books for amateurs, 
beginners, and young people is appended. 
Dr. B. E. FERNow, for many years chief of the U.S. Division of Forestry, 
has been appointed director of the new College of Forestry of Cornell Uni- 
versity. The curriculum of the college will be announced this summer. It 
will include mathematics, civil engineering, botany (especially dendrology), 
entomology, physics, chemistry, geology, and meteorology. Mr. Gifford 
Pinchot has been appointed to succeed Dr. Fernow. 
Paris's /rdex Bryologicus has now progressed as far as 7huddium and will 
be completed in one more, the fifth, part. One comment on the multiplicay — 
tion of forms and subforms in the genus Sphagnum is too good to allow it to 
remain buried in this reference work. In a footnote to RGll’s Systematik the 
author remarks: ‘Spezielle Systematik der Torfmoose. Versuch einer 
Gruppirung der (Nord-Amerikanischen) Torfmoose nach natiirlichen Formen- 
reihen, 36 Formenreihen, 373 Varietaten, 325 Formen und zahlreichen Unter- 
und Nebenformen enthaltend.”” R6ll in Flora 1886. Sit brevius dictum: 
“Tot specimina, quot nomina.” O Lindbergii Schimperique manes! | 
Dr. A. MOLLER of Eberswalde has undertaken the preparation of a 
memoir of Fritz Miiller, the distinguished naturalist of Brazil. He would be 
greatly obliged for the assistance of friends and any who were brought into 
scientific relations with Miiller. Letters, especially those with scientifically | 
valuable contents, separates of his earlier publications, information as t0 
distinctions conferred upon him and his connection with scientific societies, 
notices in newspapers and periodicals —in fact all contributions which wi 
facilitate the preparation of a suitable memoir—are solicited. All materials: 
will be carefully used and returned to the owner. 
pe. 
THE DANISH botanist Johan Lange died at his home in Copenhage® bee 
the third day of April, this year, at the age of eighty. Although Professor 
Lange devoted most of his time to the study and description of the flora of 
Denmark, he also published several voluminous works upon the flora of 
Greenland and Spain; besides a number of articles upon systematic botany 
wih descriptions of new species from various parts of the world. His prin 
cipal work, however, was a Manual of the Danish flora, and the last tem vol 
umes of Flora Danica. He was for twenty years director of the botanical 
garden at Copenhagen, and presided over the Danish botanical society Le 
twenty-seven years; besides being professor of botany at the Agricultural 
College at Copenhagen. During this long career Professor Lange gained 
world-wide reputation as a botanist, and was elected a member of numerous 
scientific societies.—Turo. Hoi. 
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