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Columbia University last June, is now botanist of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Tucson, Arizona. His doctorate thesis, 

 an important paper on the North American Sordariaceae is in 

 press. 



The appearance of " A Practical Text-Book of Plant Physi- 

 ology," by Dr. D. T. MacDougal is announced for May ist. 

 The book will be suitable for use in the laboratory, will comprise 

 about 350 pages with 150 illustrations, and will be published by 

 Longmans, Green and Company. 



Dr. Timothy Field Allen has donated his collection of Char- 

 aceae to the New York Botanical Garden. The collection repre- 

 sents the accumulations of many years of active interest in this 

 group of plants. It is rich in types and co-types and is doubt- 

 less one of the largest collections of Characeae in existence. 



" Mosses with a Hand Lens," an introduction to the study of 

 mosses, by A. J. Grout, Ph.D., of the Boys' High School, 

 Brooklyn, is an attractive booklet of 73 pages, issued in Decem- 

 ber last. It contains descriptions of one hundred of the com- 

 moner and more conspicuous mosses in but slightly technical 

 terms, with numerous illustrations. 



"The Outline of the Course in Biology" in the Horace Mann 

 School, by Professor F. E. Lloyd and Mr. Maurice A. Bigelow, has 

 recently appeared as Vol. II., No. 1 of the Teachers College Rec- 

 ord. The pamphlet contains the detailed outline of the course 

 in botany and zoology and will be of interest to teachers of those 

 subjects in high schools. 



Mr. J. E. Kirkwood has accepted a position in Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, where he will take charge of the Department of Botany. 

 Mr. Kirkwood is a graduate of Pacific University, Forest Grove, 

 Oregon. He received the appointment of special Fellow in Bi- 

 ology, Princeton University, for the year 1898-99, on the com- 

 pletion of which he continued his studies at the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden and Columbia University. His special work has 

 been on the embryology of the Cucurbitaceae and on the food 

 content and digestion in the coconut during germination. 



