312 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [OCTOBER 
MINOR NOTICES. 
Botanical papers at the St. Louis Congress.—Volume V? of the series being 
published by the Congress of Arts and Science held in connection with the St. 
Louis Exposition contains the botanical papers. The department of biology 
was divided into eleven sections, and twenty-five principal papers were read. 
Those of special interest to botanists, in the order of their appearance in the 
volume, are as follows: Development of morphological conceptions, Joun M. 
Covutter; The recent development of biology, JAcguEs Lors; A comparison 
mt saical and natural selection, Huco pEVriEs; The problem of the 
origin of species, C. O. Wuitman; Plant morphology, F. O. Bower; The 
fundamental problems of present-day plant morphology, K. GOEBEL; The 
development of plant physiology under the influence of the other sciences, J. 
IESNER; Plant physiology, present problems, B. M. Duccar; The history 
and scope of plant pathology, J. C. ARTHUR; Vegetable pathology an economic 
science, M. B. WartE; The position of ecology in modern science, O. DRUDE; 
The problems of ecology, B. L. Ropertson; Relations of bacteriology to othet 
sciences, E. O. JorpAN; Some problems in the life history of pathogenic micro- 
organisms, THEOBALD SMITH 
All of these papers have a published in various journals, notably in 
Science, but i ‘ is convenient to know that they are all accessible in a single 
volume.—J. M. C. 
Index Filicum.—The eleventh fascicle of CHRISTENSEN’s work has just 
appeared,3 carrying the references from Trichomanes Giesenhagenii to the end : 
of the list. There follow a list of additions, a list of corrections, and the begid- 
ning of a catalogue of literature arranged alphabetically -—J. M. C 
Trees of Java.—Koorpers and VaLeTon+ have published another fascicle 
of additions to the known arboreal flora of Java, containing the Moraceae. 
Seven genera are represented, including 95 — 83 of which belong to Ficus, 
under which two new species are described.—J. M. C. 
peraceae.—The second part of HusNot’s synopsis of the Cyperaceae 
of France, Switzerland, and ae has te 5 completing the list of species, 
and closing with a full index._J. M 
2 Congress of Arts and Science, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904- Edited 
by Howarp J. Rocers. Volume V. Biology, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology: 
pp- xi+882. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1906 
3 CHRISTENSEN, C., Index Filicum, etc. Fasc., 11. Copenhagen. H. Hagerup. 
1906. 3s. 6d. 
4 Koorpers, S. H., and Vateton, TH., Boomsoorten op Java. Bijdrage no- T™ 
Mededeel. Depart. Landb. no. 2. pp. 277. Batavia, 1906. 
5 Husnot, T., Cypéracées: descriptions et figures des Cypéracées de ee 
Suisse et Belgique. Part II. pp. 49-83. pls. 13-24. Cahan, par Athis (Ome: 
author. 1906. 5/r. 
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