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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
The “‘ Botanische Centralblatt ’ has become the property of the 
Association Internationale de Botanistes, which was organized at 
Geneva, Switzerland, in August, 1901. The Centralblatt is 
managed by an executive committee of the Association consist- 
ing of Professor Goebel, of Munich, Germany, Professor Bower, 
of Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Goethart, Leyden, Holland, and Dr. 
Lotsy, of Leiden, Holland. 
The editorial staff consists of Dr. Lotsy with a number of 
special editors in every country in which any considerable botan- 
ical interest has been shown. The special editors from America 
with the subjects to which they will devote special attention are 
as foll : 
r. D. H. Campbell, Stanford University : see aetan 
r. C. J. Chamberlain, University of Chicago: Cytology. 
Dr. D. T. MacDougal, New York Botanical eniee Physi- 
ology. 
Dr. G. T. Moore, Bureau of Plant Industry: Algae. 
Dr. D. P. Penhallow, McGill University : Palaeobotany. 
. H. yon Schrenk, Shaw School of Botany: Fungi. 
r. Wm. Trelease, Missouri Botanical Garden: Phanerogams. 
Reviews are printed in any one of four languages. This re- 
organization of the Centralblatt is the most important step yet 
taken toward a general bibliography of current botanical papers 
and gives an opportunity for the publication of a short abstract 
of a botanical paper from any part of the world, within two or 
three months after its appearance. 
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The total amount of precipitation in the Garden during January, 
1902, amounted to 3.40 inches. Maximum temperatures of 42.5 
on the 5th, 41.5 on the 6th, 44 on the 16th, 50 on the 21st, and 
22nd, and minima of 9.5 on the 14th, 14 on the 12th, 9.5 on the’ 
18th and 20th, and 17.5 on the 21st were observed. 
No. 18 of the Contributions from the Garden consists of four 
papers by Dr. Small under the title of ‘Shrubs and Trees of the 
Southern States.” Many interesting notes upon the habits and 
