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ie will act as agent for authors who wish to dispose of any of their publica- 
tons, A catalogue will be issued shortly. 
AT THE MEETING of the St. Louis Academy of Science, held on the even- 
ing of October 16, Dr. H. von Schrenk presented some notes on Arceuthobium 
fusillum, which was found in Maine during the past summer, growing on the 
white spruce along the seacoast. The trees which are attacked form large 
witches’ brooms, the branches of which are much longer than the normal 
tranches. The manner in which the seeds are distributed was briefly 
described, and seeds were exhibited adhering to branches of the white spruce. 
Mr. 0. F. Coox, of the Division of Botany, Department of Agriculture, 
_ tas been detailed to make a preliminary examination of the plant products 
_ of Puerto Rico with reference to the introduction of new and useful tropical 
_ plants into that island. Mr. Cook is accompanied by Mr. G. N. Collins of 
_ the Department of Agriculture as photographer, and by Mr. George P. Gall, 
Who is sent by the Smithsonian Institution to collect material for the National 
Herbarium. The expedition left New York on October 28 by the United 
States transport MacPherson.— Science, Nov. 3, 1899. 
THE DISTINGUISHED French horticulturist Henri Lévéque de Vilmorin 
/ Msstricken by apoplexy and died at Verriéres on August 24, in his fifty- 
“venth year. He visited this country in 1893, when many of our botanists 
the pleasure of meeting him at Madison, Wisconsin. Henry Vilmorin 
_ “Snot only the head of the historic house of Vilmorin & Co., the largest 
: sed firm in France, but personally directed in large part the numerous 
’ “periments for the improvement of cultivated plants which the firm were 
; “ontinually conducting at Antibes, Verriéres, and Ferme de St. Fiacre. bee 
; — was widely honored by scientific societies and has made valuable con- 
8s to horticultural literature. 
ON Marcu 3, 
1899, a bill was passed by Congress providing “that on or 
anuary I 
_1, 1903, the fence around the Botanical Garden shall be 
E Tinie. Provided that at the first session of the LVI Congress the Joint 
OM War new garden from becoming of the greatest eS oe 
"tumeg . T. SWINGLE, of the U.S. Department of pomemeraer’ 
®t, Where 2) dia months’ travel in Europe, North Africa, and 
© has been Studying the agriculture and horticulture, with a 
