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vacated by Professor Berlese. Dr. DeToni’s address, however, will still be 
On May I the north wing of the great temperate house at Kew Gardens 
was opened to the public. The center of this house was built in 1862, and 
the south wing in1894. The building is 628 feet long, with a maximum width 
of 164 feet and a height of 60 feet. It covers one and two thirds acres, and 
has cost £43,000. 
THE INTERNATIONAL scientific medal of the Academie Internationale & 
Geographie Botanigue has been conferred upon Dr. N. M. Glatfelter, of St 
Louis, for his work upon Salix, and upon Dr. Roscoe Pound, of Lincoln, Neb. 
for his phytogeographical researches. Fifteen investigators in Europe have 
been similarly honored. 
THE LINNEAN MEDAL has been awarded to Mr. J. G. Baker, late keeper 
of the herbarium and library of the Kew Gardens, “ for his services to Dotan 
during a long series of years, especially his writings on ferns and petaloid 
monocotyledons, serviceable alike to botanists and cultivators.” The pres 
tation occurred at the anniversary meeting, May 24. 
THE MACMILLAN CoMPANY announce for publication this autumn 4 
Handbook of North American Myxomycetes by Professor Thos. H. Macbride, 
of the University of Iowa. The work includes descriptions of all yi 
hitherto described from North America, with brief synonymy, accompat 
by diagnostic notes. The work is to be illustrated by nineteen full-pag® 
plates. 
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THE cooperation of a local mountain club, Dr. R. von Wettstein, © 
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director of the Vienna botanical garden, has been enabled to establish a ii 
logical experiment station in the Tyrolese central Al 
Hiitte”’ in the Gschnitzthal, at an elevation of 2300". . 
has been fitted up for a laboratory. Research will b 
production of species by direct adaptation. 
Mr. C. L. Potiarp of the National Museum, aided by 
Greene, has undertaken the distribution of authentic sets of N 
Violacez. Forty sets are in preparation and the muscu” 
return for an equivalent amount of selected duplicates, either 10 
or other groups. Decades will be issued at irregular intervals, 
material can be secured and labels printed. 
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the Violace® 
as rapidly . 
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THE POSSIBILITY of obtaining separates of articles from eae jibe 
renders possible the carrying on of investigations apart tog “rectates : 
ries. We welcome, therefore, every establishment which ae . 
diffusion of such literature. Mr. A. I. Eriksson, Tufts mee separates 
into the business of dealing in natural history books and aut : 
