330 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 1899 
Correspondents inform the Gardeners’ Chronicle that “the fire broke out in 
the left wing of the University, and destroye t in which 
collections, diagrams, etc., relating to the Alpine flora, belonging to Professor 
Chodat. Some loan collections from foreign herbaria were likewise destroyed, 
as well as some physical instruments that had belonged to De Saussure.” 
THE historico-biographical work, entitled The botanists of Philadelphia 
and their work, by Dr. John W. Harshberger, instructor in botany in the 
University of Pennsylvania, is now ready for the press. It will be printed as 
soon as sufficient subscriptions have been secured. Philadelphia in colonial 
days was the scientific and literary center of Amercia and the botanists of 
Philadelphia did much good and lasting scientific work. The book is a con- 
tribution to the history of the rise and development of botany in America; 
for many of our early botanists of historic importance were Philadelphians. 
It is to be illustrated by about fifty full page portraits. 
WILHELM ENGELMANN, Leipzig, announces that he will begin publishing, 
in the course of the year, a work by Dr. C. G. De Dalla Torre and Dr. H. 
Harms, entitled Genera Siphonogamarum, It is to present a synopsis of the 
orders, families, genera and sections of the spermatophytes based upon 
Engler and Prantl’s Watirliche Pflanzenfamilien. The important synonymy, 
references to the basal work, and various other conveniences are prom 
Such a book will be a great convenience to systematists, and will beespecially 
useful in arranging herbaria in accordance with a modern system. It will 
take a place similar to Durand’s /mdex Phanerogamarum, which was based 
upon Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Plantarum. The work will be issued 
in ten parts, of about 160 pages each. 
; F in the 
THE FIELD WoRK in the southern Rocky mountains, a is yeat 
ill thi 
La Plata region in 1898, by Messrs. Baker, Earle, and Tray 
be extended into the San Juan region, the extrem 
Great Basin watershed in southwestern Colorado and northwestem 
Last year the field work was limited to a month, an 
mined and issued under difficulties. However, they inc 
phanerogams, while a third of the fungi were new. These sets WE 
herbaria of Edinburgh, Kew, Berlin, New York, Washingto® pe 
Louis, and others.. A full report of the 1898 work by de field work will com 
Professor F. S. Earle will soon be issued. This year the 
aker (now 
tinue through the entire season in charge of Mr. C.F. B se 
for 1898, and S58" 
Falls, Wis.). A full report of results will be’ published as 
free to subscribers, If complete sets are not desired, sele 
by groups or by single specimens. 
ctions may be ae 
at St. Croix : 
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