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and Pennsylvania, is redescribed, as also the 
original Linnzean C. coccinea. 
In the February number of Rhodora the same 
author describes thirteen new species of Cra- 
taegus from the Champlain Valley, principally 
in the neighborhood of Middlebury, Vermont. 
The species described are the following: C. 
champlainensis and C. pringlei, both of the sec- 
tion ‘Molles’; C. lobulata (of the section ‘ Fla- 
bellatae’); C. acutiloba, C. matura, C. pastorum 
C. pentandra (all of the section ‘Tenuifoliae’); 
C. praecox, C. brainerdi (of the section ‘ Coc- 
cineae’); C. modesta (of the section ‘Intricatae ’); 
C. scabrida, C. egglestoni, C.asperifolia (all of the 
section ‘ Anomalae’). 
SELBY’S HANDBOOK OF PLANT DISEASES. 
Proressor A. D. SELBY, of the Ohio Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, has just issued as 
a bulletin (No. 121) a very valuable pamphlet 
of seventy pages entitled ‘ A Condensed Hand- 
book of the Diseases of Cultivated Plants in 
Ohio.’ It discusses in non-technical language 
the nature of disease, the structure and habits 
of parasitic fungi, and then takes up alpha- 
betically the cultivated plants of the farm and 
garden, describing under each the diseases and 
their effects. Woodcuts are freely used to help 
the descriptions. A couple of pages are given 
to formule and directions for making different 
fungicides, and the pamphlet closes with a very 
suggestive ‘spray calendar.’ This bulletin 
must prove to be very useful to the farmers and 
gardeners of Ohio, and it will be found most 
helpful, also, to all who are studying the diseases 
of plants. 
CHARLES E. BESSEY. 
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 
GOVERNOR STONE, of Pennsylvania, has ap- 
pointed Dr. J. T. Rothrock forestry commis- 
sioner under the new act, which places the 
forestry interests of Pennsylvania under the 
charge of a separate department of the State 
Government. 
GOVERNOR ODELL, of New York, has ap- 
pointed Dr. Daniel Lewis, of New York City, 
State Health Commissioner. Dr. Lewis was 
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president of the State Board of Health which 
has been abolished. 
Dr. W. W. KEEN, professor of surgery in the 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, expects 
to spend next year in a trip around the world. 
PROFESSOR JOHN GRIER HIBBEN, of Prince- 
ton University, has returned from his trip 
abroad and has resumed his work in the Uni- 
versity. 
THE Institution of Naval Architects has 
awarded a gold medal to Professor G. H. Bryan, 
F.R.8., for his paper on ‘ Bilge Keels.’ 
Iv is stated in Nature that the Brussels Acad- 
emy of Sciences has awarded a gold meda , of 
the value of six hundred francs, to M. F. 
Swarts, for a memoir on the subject of carbon- 
ates of an element the compounds of which are 
little known. A similar award has been made 
to Professor J. Massart, for a memoir on the 
nucleus of Scizophytes, and the Edouard Mailey 
prize of one thousand francs, for assistance in 
the extension of the knowledge of astronomy in 
Belgium, has been awarded to M. F. Jacobs, 
the founder of the Société Belge d’ Astronomie. 
WE also learn from Nature that Mr. Vaughan 
Cornish, whose name is closely associated with 
the wave-like forms assumed by drifted mate- 
rials, is now engaged on the Canadian prairies 
photographing and studying the forms assumed 
by drifting snow. Thanks to the liberality of 
the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and the 
interest evinced in the investigation by Sir 
William van Horne, Mr. Cornish writes that his 
work proceeds satisfactorily, and enough has 
already been done to justify the expedition. 
PROFESSOR ERNST HAECKEL is expected to 
return from Java to the University of Jena at 
the beginning of the summer semester, when he 
will resume his regular lectures. 
Mr. SAMUEL HENSHAW, who has keen head 
gardener of the New York Botanical Garden 
since its establishment, has resigned on account 
of advancing years, but is to act as adviser 
when his services are needed. 
Dr. F. BrpscHor, of the Observatory in 
Vienna, has been appointed assistant in the Ob- 
servatory at Trieste. 
