NEWS. 
PROFESSOR DR. FRANZ VON HOHNEL has left Vienna on a journey to 
Brazil. 
SYNTHETIC cassia oil, introduced by Schimmel & Co. of Leipzig, is gradu- 
_ ally displacing the ordinary cassia oil of commerce. 
A PLANT of Cypripedium insigne giganteum from the collection of the 
late Major Mason, recently sold in London by auction, brought £147, and 
other varieties from £30 to £76. The total amount realized at the sale was 
over £3000. 
THE HERBARIUM of the Geological Survey of Canada has recently ray 
enriched by Professor Macoun’s collections from Sable Island, by sie A. ; 
Low’s from northern Labrador and the coasts and islands of Hudson's adi 
by Mr. J. B. Tyrrell’s from the Yukon district ; and by Mr. N. B. Sanson’ 
from the vicinity of Banff. 
A course for teachers, consisting of studies in ecology and plant spss 
ology with excursions and practice, was conducted during the autumn Rie 
fessor C. Stuart Gager, of the New York State Normal College at Albany: 
The syllabus shows a refreshing appreciation of the modern aspect of ag 
“ considering plants from a dynamic rather than a static pomt of view. 
THE ACREAGE in peppermint in Wayne county, New York, one 
chief centers of the crop, has fallen from 3340 acres in 1890 to Me : 
on account of low prices of the oil and the better returns to farm a 
growing sugar beets. In Michigan the exports of peppermint on ae: am 
80,225 lbs. in 1894 to 162,492 lbs. in 1897, but are now falling, Be ‘i 
Ibs. in 1898. 
WITH THE CLOSE of volume II Messrs. Willard N. Clute & Co. ¢ 
publish Tze Plant World. \t will hereafter be publish umber © 
World Company, 321 4% street, Washington, D.C. The: first’? october f 
volume III will be that for January 1goo, thus leaving a gap prs editorial 
to December 1899 inclusive. The journal still remains under t fe jhe 
direction of Dr. F. H. Knowlton. The new volume will be see tion pri . 
trated and nearly doubled in size, but with the same page iler success 
The journal has proved very useful, and we bespeak for it mua _ 
it deserves, 
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