August 9, 1901.] 



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of the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the 

 Geological Survey of Alabama, and is now in 

 pi'ess and about ready for distribution as a 

 Bulletin of the Botanical Division of the Depart- 

 ment. It will also be published as a report of 

 the Geological Survey of the State. The vol- 

 ume on the economic botany of the State was 

 being prepared for the Geological Survey, and 

 was only partly in manuscript. The death of 

 Dr. Mohr before the completion of this report 

 must be counted as a misfortune both to the 

 State of Alabama and to science in general, 

 since there is no one else so well qualified as 

 Dr. Mohr to write upon this subject. The col- 

 lections in the Museum of the University of 

 Alabama, in great part brought together, ar- 

 ranged and installed by him, will remain as 

 enduring monuments to his memory. These 

 are : A collection of dried specimens of the 

 flowering plants and ferns of Alabama repre- 

 senting some 2,500 species ; a similar collection 

 of the mosses, liverworts, lichens and fungi of 

 the State, numbering some 1,000 species ; a 

 forestry collection, consisting of about 150 

 blocks in book form illustrating the native 

 woods, and a collection in about 150 individual 

 glass front cases, showing the foliage, flowers 

 and fruits of the timber trees of the State. 



The British Medical Association held its 

 sixty-ninth annual meeting at Cheltenham last 

 week, under the presidency of Dr. G. B. Fer- 

 guson. 



The Botanical Gazette states that, under a 

 commission from the United States Govern- 

 ment, Dr. H. von Schrenk, of the Shaw School 

 of Botany at St. Louis, is to spend the summer 

 in Europe, in an investigation of the problems 

 connected with the decay of railroad ties on the 

 principal roads, this work being done in con- 

 nection with a series of investigations on the 

 same subject which he is undertaking for the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, in which the 

 principal American railroads are cooperating. 



As we learn from the same source. Dr. J. N. 

 Rose left about June 20 for his third botanical 

 trip to Mexico. He expects to go first to the 

 City of Mexico, working out from this point as 

 a base southward towards Acapulco and east. 

 ward toward Vera Cruz, probably ascending 



Mount Orizaba and Popocatepetl. The objects 

 of his trips are to make a genei'al botanical col- 

 lection ; to collect at type localities certain spe- 

 cies of Humboldt, Galeotti, Schiede and other 

 early collectors ; and to acquire information in 

 regard to the economic uses of Mexican plants, 

 especially such as will supplement a second 

 paper on the useful plants of Mexico which is 

 now nearly completed. 



The examination for the position of assistant 

 ethnologist in the Bureau of American Eth- 

 nology, recently announced in this journal, was 

 passed creditably by Albert Ernest Jenks, 

 Ph.D., of Madison, Wisconsin, and he has just 

 been appointed to the position and assigned to 

 work on the foods and other economic resources 

 of the Amerind tribes about the Great Lakes. 



We are requested to state that the fossil ver- 

 tebrates, to which we recently referred as hav- 

 ing been collected under the auspices of the U. 

 S. Geological Survey in the Triassic of Arizona 

 were collected by Mr. Barnum Brown. They 

 filled two boxes weighing nearly half a ton, 

 and have been unpacked under the direction of 

 Mr. F. A. Lucas^ who will probably soon re- 

 port as to their scientific value. 



A CASE of the bubonic plague is at present on 

 Swinburne Island, New York City, having 

 been removed from a steamship that arrived in 

 the port from Calcutta. The case was diagnosed 

 by the quarantine laboratory and the diagnosis 

 confirmed by the marine hospital service. The 

 disease has not been exterminated in San Fran- 

 cisco and appears to be spreading at Capetown 

 and in Egypt. 



The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 

 will send another expedition, probably under 

 the direction of Dr. Annett, to Sierra Leone. 

 This is the seventh expedition sent by the school 

 for the investigation of malaria. 



The British National Antarctic Expedition 

 steamship Discovery left London on July 21. 

 She will proceed to Spithead to complete her 

 equipment and will stop at Cowes, where the 

 King will bid good-bye to the members of the 

 expedition. 



A TELEGRAM from Eeuter's Agency states 

 that the St. Petersburg Academy of Science re- 



