80 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [rory 
THE EIGHTH annual session of the biological station of the University of 
Montana will be held at Flathead Lake from July 11 to August 16. This sta 
combines the advantages of lake, plain, and mountain. Botany is in charge 
Tuomas A. Bonser, of the Spokane high school. 
His ASsociaTEs on the faculty of Brown University lately presented to P. o- 4 
fessor W. WHITMAN BaILEy a loving-cup, in token of their esteem for him per- 
sonally and in commemoration of his twenty-nine years of active service, from 
which he retires this year. Ata meeting of the trustees at Commencement h 
was appointed Professor Emeritus. 
Mrs. J. H. ScHarrner, of Columbus, Ohio, died recently after a brief illn 
This is not only a sad loss of a devoted companion to Professor SCHAFFNER, bu 
a botanist of promise and ability has passed away. Mrs. SCHAFFNER had pu 
lished little, perhaps only one paper, over her own name, but a piece of com 
pleted cytological work will soon appear as a posthumous paper. 
IN THE Generalversammlungs-H eft closing volume 23 of Ber. Deutsch. Bot 
Gesells., the following biographical sketches are published: WiLHELM SCHWACKE, 
by TH. Lorsener; Epuarp TAnct, by G. HABERLANDT; JOHANN ANTON 
Scuipt, by E. Prirzer; Orro Wtnscue, by J. ABRoMEIT; FEDERICO DEL: 
PINO, by O. Penzic; Lo ERrrera (with portrait), by E. pe WiLpDEMAN. 
AT THE REQUEST of some members of the American Medical Association 
HERMANN VON SCHRENK made a pathological exhibit at the recent meeting 
this association in Boston. The exhibit showed types of some diseases of ple 
and some of the conditions producing these diseases. The manner of infec 
and spread of disease, the symptoms and causes, the methods of treatment 2 
of investigation were illustrated. The time for securing the material was extreme- 
ly limited, but nevertheless the exhibit occasioned much surprise to the medi 
men, though it showed but partially the work which plant pathologists ha 
accomplished. 
publication accompanying the title pages of the volume. On p. vi, line 
for June 30 read July 7. 
