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eo) published by Henry Holt & Co., have been purchased by Longmans, and the 
plates have been destroyed. 
_ THE VENERABLE Dr. J. B. JACK, the well-known student of the Hepaticae, 
: ly on August 14, 1901, in the 84th year of his age. His collec- 
ny the tekiinety rich in the forms of European species, was purchased some 
: time ago by the Boissier herbarium. 
THE SALE of the Botanisches Centra/b/att does not affect the status of the 
oc Beihefte sum Botanisches Centralblatt, which since January has been the 
property of Dr. O. Uhlworm, and will be continued under the joint editor- 
ship of Drs. Uhlworm and F. G. Kohl. 
THE NEW Bulletin de i’ Herbier of the botanical institute at Bucharest, 
published under the direction of Professor Vladesco, indicates an awakening 
along botanical lines in Roumania. The articles are published in Roumanian 
and in French or German in parallel columns. 
_ PROFESSOR W. J. Sprtyman, formerly of the Washington Agricultural 
Experiment Station, has been appointed agrostologist of the United States — 
of Agriculture to succeed Mr. F. Lamson-Scribner, who is now — 
3 of the Philippine Bureau of Agriculture. , 
ANOTHER _ VOLUME has appeared in Engler and Drude’s monumental 
‘elation Erde, viz., an exhaustive treatise of the Illyrian region by DE. 
eck. This lume, together with an earlier one on the Caucasus region by 
Ibe reviewed in the next issue of this journal. a 
ENT of ‘the fourth annual session of the Univers ve ee 
ng 
m the American Naturalist the following items : Be pele a 
en appointed docent for botany in the academy at Miinster. Dee: 
ae been made professor of plant production in the nian 
rague. Dr. Hans Winkler has been made ade docent fot coe 
sity of Tiibingen. J. R. Jackson, keeper of the Museum oe 
ape, George Hoigea: curator of = Kew — es 
Benxers died eeddeaty at his London home on jee % = 
er He was author of the monograph on Polygalaceae | for 
woman translator (with Dyer) of ‘Sachs's Text-book of 
vite Flora of the Alps, besides. numerous hot: 
rhe has been one of the editors of the a ss 
