224 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MARCH 
substance of the address, however, will appear in Bulletin no. 5 of the New 
York Botanical Garden, now in press. 
WITH THE conclusion of the seventh volume, December 1899, M. Eugéne 
Autran announced that the publication of the Bulletin de [ Herbier Boissier 
terminates. It will be welcome news to taxonomists, who have learned 
to look to the Budletin for work of the highest quality, that a successor has 
already appeared in the M/émoirs, having much the same form, but consist- 
ing of a series of separate papers issued at irregular intervals. 
PRESIDENT HADLEy has made the welcome announcement that a school 
THE FIRST number of the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden was 
issued with the beginning of the year. It is an interesting 16-page number, 
with a late photograph of the museum building as a frontispiece. The Jour- 
nal is to be edited by Dr. D. T. MacDougal, and will be published monthly, con- 
taining illustrated non-technical articles, news, notes, etc., of general interest. 
The publications of the Garden now comprise four series: the /ourna/, the 
Bulletin, the Memoirs, and the C. ontributions, the latter including reprints 
from publications other than the first three. Such multiplication of titles is 
Garden, which has recently established the séxti series of its publications. 
We wish the New York Garden would lead a reform in this respect. 
