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began with the second volume, and in the early volumes 28 contributions are 

 credited to him. 



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ir induktive Abslammungs- und Vererbungslehre, under the editorship of 

 Dr. E. Bauu (Berlin) and the general direction of Correns, Haecker, Steixmann, 

 and VON Wettstein. It will appear in octavo parts of variable size (how many 

 are to form a volume is not stated, nor is the price announced), and is to contain 

 contributions to the theory of evolution, whether from the field of paleontology, 

 biology of living forms, taxonomy, physiological chemistry, or experimental 

 evolution. 



The botanical programme (February 14) of the Wisconsin Academy 

 includes the following titles: Nuclear division in the vegetative cells of Gentiana 

 detonsa, by R. H. Denniston; The blepharoplast in the development of the 

 antherozoid in ferns, by Ruth F. Allen; Variations in macrospore formation in 

 Smilacina slellaia, by Fred McAllister; Nuclear division and spore formation 

 m Geoglossum, by Hallie D. M. Jolivette; Nuclear structure and nuclear 

 division in Chrysomyxa Mi, by R. A. Harper; The development of the male cells 

 - of a moss, by C. E. Allen. 



Dr. Friederich Kornicke, Geheimer-Regierungsrat arfd professor in the 

 Landwirthschaftliche Akademie at Bonn from 1867 to 1898, when he retired as 

 emeritus, died on January 16, at the age of 80. He was a native of Pratau, near 

 Wittenberg, studied under Kunth, Link, and Alexander Braun in Berlin, 

 where he served as assistant for seven years. After three years in St. Petersburg 

 he went in 1859 to the agricultural school at Waldau, and in 1867 to Bonn. He 

 was the author of monographs on Eriocaulaceae, Rapataceae, and Marantaceae. 

 His important work, Die Artcn und Varietaten des Getreides, was published at 

 Bonn in 1885. 



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Ohio State University, Columbus, died on March 8 in Guatemala from an attack 

 of malarial fever, at the age of 57 years. Last December he went to Central 

 America with a party of students to collect parasitic fungi and to study tropical 

 vegetation, and this sudden death is a sacrifice to scientific zeal. His pubhca- 

 tions mclude such books as The flora oj Kansas, a text book entitled Ele- 

 mentary botany, and numerous papers; but he was chiefly interested in the 

 Journal of Mycology, of which he was editor and proprietor, and in the more 

 recently established Mycological Bulletin, to which he held the same relation. 

 He was a native of Ohio, graduated at Cornell University in 1871, received his 



Zurich in 1881, and held positions in a state 



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normal school of Wisconsin, the State Agricultural College of Kansas, and the 



fel^ ^'''^''''^' ^^ 0^^«' ^here he was in charge of the botany since 1891. ^'^^- 

 bi,t h ™''-^^^ ^^'^s not only an enthusiastic student of his chosen subject, 

 ne was also a man of fine and genial presence, who attached to himself all 

 those who came into personal relations with him. 



