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but yields a fruit of great excellence. We are 

 assured that this variety can be grown in the 

 Salton Basin, California. 



WOODY PLANTS IN WINTER. 



K. M. WiEGAND and F. W. Foxworthy, of 

 Cornell University, have published a handy 

 pamphlet which should be very useful to for- 

 esters, horticulturists, schoolteachers and 

 others who do not have such an intimate per- 

 sonal acquaintance with trees and shrubs as 

 will enable them to recognize them in their 

 winter condition. By means of carefully 

 made keys the genus of any woody plant, 

 native or planted in the state of New York, 

 may be determined with a good deal of cer- 

 tainty. The authors hope to bring out later 

 a similar set of keys to the species. 



DOCTOR AUGUSTIN GATTINGER, BOTANIST. 



Born in Munich, Germany, in 1825, edu- 

 cated in the Gymnasium and University of 

 Munich, emigrated to Tennessee when twenty- 

 four years of age, practised medicine and 

 studied the flora of Tennessee for many years, 

 published ' Trees and Shrubbery Adapted to 

 the Soil and Climate of Nashville' (1878), 

 'Tennessee Marbles' (1883), 'Botanical 

 Fragments' (1884), 'The Tennessee Flora' 

 (1887), 'The Medicinal Plants of Tennessee' 

 (1894), 'The Flora of Tennessee' (1901), 

 died in his home in Nashville, July 18, 1903. 

 Such is the brief summary of the life of a 

 pleasant, genial, industrious man who loved 

 plants, and studied them because he loved 

 them. 



In the American Historical Magazine for 

 April, 1904, there appeared a sympathetic 

 biographical sketch (28 pp.) of the life of Dr. 

 Gattinger, by Eobert A. Halley, accompanied 

 with a fine portrait. This has been printed 

 separately for distribution among botanical 

 and other friends. Charles E. Besset. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 The University of Toronto conferred, on 

 May 27, the honorary degree of LL.D. upon 

 President Harper, of the University of Chi- 

 cago; Professor Minot, of Harvard Univer- 



sity; Professor Saunders, of the Dominion 

 Experimental Farm, Ottawa ; Mr. W. S. King, 

 Dominion astronomer, and his assistant, Mr. 

 Otto Klotz; and Captain Deville, surveyor- 

 general, Ottawa. 



Cambridge University conferred, on May 

 28, the following doctorates of science: Hen- 

 dricus Gerardus van de Sande Bakhuysen, 

 president of the Eoyal Academy of Sciences, 

 Amsterdam, professor of astronomy in the 

 University of Leiden; Andrej Sergejevich 

 Famintsyn, member of the Imperial Academy 

 of Sciences of St. Petersburg; Edmimd Moj- 

 sisovics, Edler von Mojsvar, member of the 

 Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna; Gus- 

 tav Retzius, member of the Eoyal Swedish 

 A'cademy of Sciences, emeritus professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Stockholm; 

 Eduard Eiecke, member of the Eoyal Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, Gottingen, professor of phys- 

 ics in the University of Gottingen; Wilhelm 

 "Waldeyer, secretary of the Eoyal Prussian 

 Academy of Sciences, Berlin, professor of 

 anatomy in the University of Berlin. 



The senate of the Eoyal University of Ire- 

 land has resolved to confer, honoris causa, 

 the degree of doctor of science on Sir William 

 Crookes, F.E.S., and on Professor James De- 

 war, F.E.S. 



A . COMPLIMENTARY dinner was given on 

 May 16 in London to Major-General E. E. 

 Testing, C.B., F.E.S., upon his retirement 

 from the post of director of the science 

 division of the Victoria and Albert Museum. 



Professor E. S. Woodward, dean of the 

 faculty of pure science, will be the delegate 

 from Columbia University at the celebration 

 of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of 

 the University of Wisconsin, on June 5 to 9. 



Dr. L. O. Howard, chief entomologist of the 

 Department of Agriculture and permanent 

 secretary of the American Association, has re- 

 turned to Washington after investigations in 

 the southern states and Mexico. 



Professor E. W. Wood, professor of experi- 

 mental physics at the Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity, has gone to Europe, where he will carry 

 on investigations during the summer. 



