NOVEMBKE 15, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



677 



School Bulletin No. 1, and is intended to 

 serve as a guide for the high schools of the 

 state. The work as outlined includes the cell, 

 the blue-green algae, the green algae, the lower 

 fungi, brown seaweeds, higher green algae, red 

 algae, higher fungi, liverworts, mosses, ferns 

 and their allies. This is followed with six- 

 teen lessons on the structure and activities of 

 the seed plants and suggestive paragraphs on 

 how to make a botanical museum and herbar- 

 ium, how and what apparatus to buy, a list of 

 text- and reference-books, etc., etc. It must 

 prove very helpful to high school jirincipals 

 and those who are teaching botany in these 

 schools. 



ANOTHER TREE BOOK 



Me. Eomeyn B. Hough, well and favorably 

 known in connection with his publication of 

 sections of American woods, has issued a stout 

 volume of 464 pages under the title of 

 " Hand-book of the Trees of the Northern 

 States and Canada east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains." In this book one finds for each of the 

 more than two hundred species included, on 

 one page a reproduction of a photograph of the 

 leaves, twigs and fruit, and on the page op- 

 posite, a similar photograph of the trunk, a 

 map showing distribution, a careful descrip- 

 tion, and in many cases an enlarged photo- 

 graph of a cross-section of the wood. The 

 photographs are admirably selected, and have 

 been reproduced very successfully. Those 

 showing leaves and fruits are upon a back- 

 ground marked into squares which originally 

 were square inches, and so while the pictures 

 have been reproduced with different degrees of 

 reduction, the lines enable one at once to make 

 out the actual dimensions of the objects. This 

 device is very ingenious, and should be more 

 generally adopted by book-makers. The little 

 maps are admirable, and tell more exactly the 

 distribution of each species than is possible by 

 any amount of mere description. 



At the beginning of the volume is a key to 

 the families, based mainly upon the flowers, 

 and in the back portion is given a synopsis of 

 the families and genera, with keys to the 

 species. Here occur also the descriptions of a 

 considerable number of species not found in 

 the illustrated part of the volume. The book 



closes with a full glossary, and a well-arranged 

 index. It will be indispensable to the 

 botanist, and the student of forestry. 



Charles E. Bessey 

 The University of Nebraska 



APPOINTMENTS AT TULANE UNIVERSITY 



The following changes are noted in the fac- 

 ulty of the Tulane University of Louisiana 

 for 1907-8 : 



Dr. Eobert Sharp, head of the department 

 of English, has been granted a year's leave of 

 absence, and has selected as his substitute 

 Mr. Armour Caldwell, of Columbia and Har- 

 vard, who with Assistant Professor Brown, of 

 the department of English, will carry on Dr. 

 Sharp's work for the present session. 



Dr. Ulrich B. Phillips, assistant professor 

 of American history in the University of Wis- 

 consin, who has been granted a year's leave 

 of absence by that university, has been se- 

 lected to fill the chair of history, made vacant 

 by the death of Professor John R. Ficklen. 



Professor J. M. Gwinn, professor of peda- 

 gogy in the Missouri State Normal School, at 

 Warrensburg, has been appointed to the newly- 

 established chair of education. 



Dr. John C. Ransmeier, who recently re- 

 turned from Europe, where he has been travel- 

 ing on the John Harvard fellowship, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of German, vice 

 Professor John Hanno Deiler, who retired 

 last June on a Carnegie pension. 



Dr. William B. Smith, former professor of 

 mathematics, who spent the most of last year 

 in Europe, will fill the chair of philosophy. 

 Dr. Joseph N. Ivey, associate professor of 

 mathematics, has been appointed head of that 

 department. 



Professor Douglas S. Anderson, who was 

 granted a year's leave of absence in 1906-Y, 

 and who spent the greater part of his time at 

 the Polytechnic School at Zurich, Switzer- 

 land, has returned to take up his work as head 

 of the department of electrical engineering. 



Professor William B. Gregory will pursue 

 studies at Cornell University for the session 

 of 1907-8. Mr. James M. Eobert will act as 

 his substitute. 



