142 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [resrvar 
Dr. Domenico Saccarvo, of the Royal Botanical Garden at Padua, bas 
just issued the first two centuries of a AMycotheca Ttalica, seu Fungi Ili’ 
exsiccat, which is said to contain some new species and many forms nt 
hitherto published in exsiccati. The price is fr. 15 per century. 
THERE HAS JUST COME to us a paper by Professor Thomas C. Porters 
“The Pennsylvania-German in the field of the natural sciences.” It conta 
most interesting accounts of several botanical worthies, together with ther, 
portraits. Among these we note Miihlenberg, Schweinitz, Wolle, and Garba | 
AT THE thirteenth annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Scientt, 
held at Indianapolis December 29 and 30, 1897, fifteen botanical papers wet 
presented out of a total of eighty. The following officers were elected ix 
1898: President, C. A. Waldo, Purdue University; Vice-President, CH 
Eigenmann, Indiana University; Secretary, John S. Wright, Indianapels 
The volume of proceedings is a public document, a limited number bel 
printed by the state, the copies being distributed by the state librarian unde 
the direction of the Academy. 
AN EXPEDITION for the collection of all classes of flowering and Sade 
gamous plants is being arranged, for the season of 18098, to explore e 
Plata and San Juan mountains of southeastern Colorado. Specimens will ; 
secured to illustrate, so far as possible, not only the species of the region, ® : 
also the range of variation due to environment, such as climate, altitude, 
€xposure. Sets of specimens will be sold at $7 per hundred, 
WITH THE NEW YEAR the Pharmaceutical Review changes its 
quarto to large octavo. It also announces that more space will be de 
the monthly review of pharmaceutical literature. To accommodate 1 
amount of original matter which has increasingly crowded out these TY 
new journal, Pharmaceutical Archives, will be ‘established under the ¢ 
ship of Dr. Edward Kremers, of the University of Wisconsin. THE 
of the Review is certainly more convenient than the old one, with sans 
columned pages, which necessitated the annoying repagination of ale 
reprinted. We congratulate the editors on the improvement. 
A BOTANICAL CLUB was organized in St. Louis last Decembes 
known as the “Engelmann Botanical Club.” It is planned to hae 
bimonthly meetings for the reading of papers and reviews, and to 2 
days in the Spring. The following officers were elected for 1898: a 
William Trelease ; Vice-Presidents, G. W. Lettermann and Henry 
Secretary, Hermann von Schrenk. At the meeting of January 
Pammel read 4 paper on the flora of Iowa; J. B. S. Norton di! 
