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entitled “Mrs.” Our Teutonic friends do not seem able to compass 
the English Zand /, which is a fruitful source of error in this list. 
Nor has the editor appreciated the humor of the young woman who 
gives her official position as “housekeeper,” which he faithfully re- 
cords. Other errors are due to long survival of names in these direc- 
tories. Pres. D. S. Jordan, of Stanford University, a zoologist, in 1873 
an instructor in botany at Cornell University but scarcely interested 
for the last twenty years in botany, is listed, as is also Dr. P. S. Baker 
ot De Pauw University, a chemist once giving some attention to plants. 
But in spite of errors the directory is a very decided improvement 
arrangement, typography, and completeness upon the last one com- 
piled by Wilhelm Engelmann in 18gr. And if botanists will take 
pains to send corrections and additions to the editor, Herr J. Dorfler, 
Barichgasse 36, Wien III, Austria, these shortcomings can be cor- 
ected in the next edition. Mr. Dérfler deserves commendation for 
the promptness with which he has compiled this list and his energy in 
eyhing itat his own risk. He should be rewarded by a large sale 
Orit, 
Minor Notices. 
Teachers or BoTANY would do well to consult a lecture by Prof. 
if M. Macfarlane, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the organiza- 
ton of botanical museums in high schools, colleges, and universities. 
This lecture was delivered at the 1894 summer session of the Marine 
Bo Laboratory at Woods Hole and has recently been issued 
Ga “pei from the Biological Lectures for that year published by 
tn & Co, 
The BOTANICAL SEMINAR of the University of Nebraska, whose ac- 
iwity iso many lines is to be commended, published some months 
ni ‘na handsome pamphlet, the address of Dr. John M. Coulter be- 
oe the seminar on May 27, 1895. Only 363 copies of the address, 
fach humbered, were printed. Dr. Coulter’s subject is “The Botan- 
'@l Outlook” and his address must have been stimulating and suggest- 
"0 the energetic body of students to whom it was a ressed. 
me of classification 
FESSOR PENHAL d a sche 
LOw has prepared a 
le he use of students, 
has been j i dtot 
N issued in book form,’ adapted to : Y’ 
| Oui Space for notes. Five branches are recognized as in att 4 
mines, etc., whose subdivisions are given as far as ee iia 
sperms, An attempt is made to show the chief sexual ¢ 
0 
Which 
| pe itdts keep homologies plain. But the scheme of typography © 
lal to explain by words, though simple enough to u 
d when seen. 
Wop yttow, D. P.: Outlines of classification of plants. 12X9 
Ontreal; E. M. Renouf. 1895. 
