NOTES AND NEWS. 
Dr. C. A. J. A. OuDEMans has resigned the professorship of botany 
inthe University of Amsterdam, on account of his advanced age. 
TuE /cones Plantarum is hereafter to be edited by the Director of 
Kew Gardens, a duty performed since 1891 by Professor Daniel Oliver. 
Dr. J. MUELLER, Director of the Botanic Garden and Curator of the 
Delessert Herbarium at Geneva, died January 28th in his 68th year. 
Mr. L. S. CHENEY, instructor in botany in the University of Wis- 
consin, has been promoted to be assistant professor of botany in the 
college of pharmacy. 
THERE WERE more than 1,400,000 visitors at the Kew Gardens during 
1895. The month of largest attendance was June, with nearly 300,000, 
and the smallest February, with little over 12,000. 
Tat New Mexican Lippia iodantha Rob. & Greenm. is figured in 
Garden and Forest for March 11th, with a brief informal description 
“Notes of Mexican Travel” by C. G. Pringle. 
A POPULAR ARTICLE on ferns by Willard N. Clute, profusely illus- 
oe and unusually well written, appears in the Commercial Travel- 
"' Home Magazine for March (6: 271-278.) 
eg D. T. MacDoueat, of the University of Minnesota, expects 
i spend the summer in Tiibingen, in the laboratory of Prof. Vocht- 
8, Where he may be addressed during June, July and August. 
MOTHER PaRAst i been found 
TE producing scab on potato tuber has bee 
hinge bY K. Schilberscky (Ber. d. d. ies sr 14: eap 
. idi 1 overer, - 
Dhlyctis em and is named by the disc 
Interesting ith in 
: Accounts of the difficulties and pleasures met with 
rms for the rare fern, Schizea pusilla, are given in the April 
an fthe Linnean Fern Bulletin, by Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton 
‘C.F. Saunders, 
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expeciay “ Coox, who made his third trip to Africa last October, 1S 
legg than land in New York about the middle of April. 
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