300 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [APRIL 1898 
Kennedy, cryptogamic curator. The club meets the first Friday of each 
month, excepting the summer months ; and the herbarium is kept in the 
Harvard University Museum. The address of the secretary, Mr. Rand, is 
740 Exchange Building, Boston. 
WITH THE FIRST number of the fourth volume Zhe Forester passes into 
the ownership of the American Forestry Association, which will publish itas 
the organ of the association. The only information as to its editorial mat 
agement is the following from the proceedings of the association: “The @ 
new journal is to be Zhe Forester, being the paper heretofore published by 
Mr, John Gifford, of Princeton, N. J., which he has conveyed to the associa- a 
tion. A newspaper correspondent has been secured as managing bre. 
assisted by a committee of the association, with Dr. Fernow as chairman 
This number (of 24 pages) is devoted to the white pine situation. 
THE Annals of Botany has published as a sort of preface to Volume XI, 
completed with the number for December 1897, a biographical sketch - 
portrait of Professor M. J. Berkeley. ‘The sketch is prepared by Dr. Thee 
ton-Dyer. Berkeley is said to have been the virtual founder of British mycol- 
ogy, his work in this field having begun in 1836, when he undertook wt 
William Hooker the description of the British species. It is stated age 
has probably published descriptions of some 6000 species, with a skill 
Precision which has made this enormous work durable. In 1846 he ine 
his study of diseases of plants, and is said to have been the first to gi 
subject in a systematic manner. In 1857 he published his well Sa aiel 
duction to C; ryptogamic Botany, which was the first comprehensive Kee 
this kind in any language. 
ome to our table. 
THE FIRST NUMBER of Pharmaceutical Archives has € Daturé 
eaves of 
It contains a paper on the “Comparative structure of the | 0, Schlot 
Stramonium, Atropa Belladonna, and Hyoscyamus niger,” bd : Fraxivat 
terbeck and A. Van Zwaluwenburg ; “Structure of the twigs : continu 
Americana, by R. H. Denniston, each illustrated by two P _ ne and 
ation of Peckolt’s “ Folk-names of Brazilian plants and their produ 1896" 
4 Continuation of Brown’s “ Chemical bibliography of paLee ak at 
from the Pharmaceutical Review. The new journal p desiens . rt. Some 
much material of value to botanists and bespeaks their mepheane 
details of style and typography have escaped the control a rinted 0 
number which will be corrected in the next issue. The haat 3 
both sides, are to be reprinted in proper form. The ee 
Kremers, of the University of Wisconsin. 
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