80 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JANUARY 
THE GENERAL herbarium of the late Dr. Béckeler, of Varel, will be sold. 
It contains ahout 12,000 species and is very complete for the European flora. 
Several exotic sets are also included, and some families from the herbarium 
‘of Kurt Sprengel. Further details may be obtained by addressing H. Graf 
zu Solms-Laubach, Strassburg, the editor of Botanische Zeitung. 
A FULL-LENGTH oil portrait of Linnaeus was presented to the Philadelphia 
Academy of Natural Sciences at the meeting on Tuesday, December 26, by 
Mr. Charles E, Smith, a veteran botanist of Philadelphia. The portrait is a 
‘copy of the original painting in the possession of Baron Verschner of Holland. 
It was made for Mr. Smith by Boudewynse with the permission of the owner. 
It represents Linnaeus in early manhood, in the dress he wore when making a 
journey to Lapland. Engravings of this portrait are not rare. 
THE FIRST number of the new Bulletin de Z’ Institut Botanigue de Butten- 
sorg contains an account of the present condition of the institute, its staff, 
publications, garden and laboratory facilities ; of the climate ; of the opportu- 
nities it offers to visiting naturalists, with suggestions and information of 
special value to those who contemplate going thither. Since 1885, seventy- 
five naturalists have visited the garden, of whom twenty-two were from Hol- 
land and nineteen from Germany; Austria coming next with nine, while 
only one American, Mr. Fairchild, has been there for study. Plans of the 
gardens and buildings are also shown. 
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the department of botany for the thirteenth season 
of the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory has been issued unusually 
early. The session is to begin Thursday July 5 and close on Thursday 
August 16. The staff consists of Dr. Bradiey M. Davis, in charge, Mr. Geo. 
T. Moore, and Dr. Rodney H. True; with Mrs. Rhoda A. Esten as curator of 
the herbarium and Miss Lillian G. MacRae as collector. Courses (lectures 
and laboratory work) will be offered in cryptogamic botany, physiology, and — 
cytology. Besides this, there will be the usual course of general lectures of — 
which the details cannot yet be announced. A course in “nature study” will — 
be offered this year for the first time. The announcement may be obtained 4 
by application to Dr, B. M, Davis, the University of Chicago. 
