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species, their geographic distribution, and the sub-genera; (8) the names of 
fossil genera corrected according to the law of priority; (g) as an appendix, 
alist of names of cryptogams heretofore altered in accordance with the law 
of priority. 
UNDER the pressure of increased demands upon its space the Centra/- 
Matt fir Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, und Infektionskrankheiten has been 
and is issued in somewhat altered form. Part I, containing original 
contributions, will be published in numbers of varying sizes, to avoid divid- 
ing a paper, a volume being composed of fifty signatures. The abstracts will 
be issued in separate weekly numbers of about two signatures. Part II, 
which embraces chemical and technological bacteriology, instead of being 
_— fortnightly as heretofore, will also be published weekly in numbers 
containing two signatures, the form being unchanged. Particular importance 
hereafter will be 
garding Certain special subjects. Reports from scientific societies and 
fommunications from bacteriological institutes will bea feature of the pro- 
Posed improvement. oa 
Tue FIRST number of the Botanisches Centralblatt under the new control 
| eed. M. Bornet discusses the aim of the Association Inter- 
o Rationale des 
Botanistes ; the secretary and editor-in-chief, Dr. J. P. Lotsy, 
story of the new association, with lists of the members and of the 
Special editors. T 
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