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Axust of Dr. Increase A. Lapham, a pioneer naturalist of Wisconsin 
(1875), was recently unveiled in the magnificent new public library and 
museum of Milwaukee. Lapham made extensive collections of plants in 
Wisconsin and northern Michigan, which are to be found in the great herbaria. 
His own herbarium is at the University of Wisconsin. 
L’asBe Count Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli, the venerable 
student of diatoms, died at Rome on the 27th of March. He was born at 
Fano, July 19, 1817, and was therefore, in his eighty-second year. At the 
time of his death he was president of the Academie Pontifice des Nuovi 
Lincei— DE Ton. 
Dr. A. W. CHAPMAN died suddenly at his home in Apalachicola, Florida, 
April 6, in his ninetieth year. This venerable American botanist, so long 
identified with the flora of the southern states, continued his botanical work 
until the last. A biographical sketch, prepared by Dr. Charles Mohr, 
will be published in the next number of the BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
THe Société de physique et d’histoire naturelle, of Geneva, announces 
4competition for the prize of 500 francs, founded by A. P. DeCandolle, for 
the best unpublished monograph of a genus or family of plants. The manu- 
scripts, to be written in Latin, French, German, Italian, or English, must be 
sent to the president of the society before January 15, 1900. If agreeable to 
the author of the work receiving the award, the society will publish it in its 
quarto Mémoires. : 
‘ory is patent, but its accuracy and completeness depend ; 
Cooperation of all to whom address blanks come. Mr. Dorfler's address 1s 
Barichgasse 36, Wien, III, Austria. 
THE GRouNDs of the new Cruickshank botanical garden, in connection 
with the University of Aberdeen, are shortly to be laid out. The total area 
“4 between five and six acres, of which about half an acre is placed at the 
“isposal of the agricultural department of the University. Provision is to Be 
Made at present only for a museum, and for the study of systematic botany ; 
ate the trustees contemplate erecting suitable quarters for physiologica 
Work. Dr. J. W. H. Traill is the director. 
THE TWELFTH annual session of the Marine Biological Laboratory opens 
at Woods Hole, Mass., on June 1, and closes October 1. Two aun 
"struction in botany are offered, one in cryptogamic botany and one . cy 
