1897] NEWS A275 
THE “Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienzi e Lettere’’ of Milan has 
awarded a prize of JZ 800 to our associate, Professor Dr. J. B. DeToni, for a 
treatise upon the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci. 
THE EDITION of Uredinee Americana Exsiccate, prepared by Mr. M. A. 
Carleton, one fascicle only having been issued, has been exhausted. Owin 
to pag of other work the author is obliged to permanently discontinue 
the se 
“THE FERN-COLLECTOR’S HANDBOOK AND HERBARIUM,” by Miss S. F. 
Price, is announced for speedy publication by Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. it 
is intended to be a popular work, and will contain seventy-two large plates, 
most of them life size. 
PROFESSOR D. P. PENHALLOW calls attention to the following correcti 
that should be made in his paper on Myelopteris, which was published in i 
BOTANICAL GAZETTE for January last: “resin canal” should be changed to 
“gum canal” on page 28 last line, and on page 2g line 16. 
Mr. AuG. SaupE, R. A., sculptor, prepared a death mask of the late 
Baron Ferdinand von Miiller. Copies of this may be obtained. Mr. Saupe 
is engaged in modeling a life-size bust and a medallion, copies of which will 
also be for sale. His address is 85 Coppin street, Richmond, Victoria, 
Australia. 
THE BOOK entitled The Botanists of Philadelphia and their Work, whose 
preparation by Dr. John W. Harshberger, of the University of Pennsylvania, 
was announced about a year ago, is now completed and lies in manuscript. 
It will contain when printed about 500 pages of printed matter and fifty full- 
page plates. 
Dr. PauL Tausert, of the Royal Botanical Museum of Berlin, who has 
been engaged in botanical exploration of the Amazon region of northern 
Brazil for a year past, fell a victim to the yellow fever at Manaos on the first 
of January last. He was a special student of the Leguminosae, which group 
he elaborated for Engler and Prantl’s Natiérlichen Pflanzenfamilien. 
A NEW GERMAN WEEKLY, Die Umsc chau, began publication January 1 of 
this year, under the sien of Dr. J. H. Bechhold. It has a broad field 
» as the chronicler of the progress in science, industry, literature, and art. 
Among the collaborators, Professor Dr. Magnus and privat-docent Dr. A. 
. — are announced f for the scien of botany. The yearly arnternar a 
we. peda Hisashi extensive herbarium of the e- De. J Fr : 
eS Seon ofered forsale 1 ‘The collection is the result of twenty years of the 
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