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inadequate, and speciously misleading as to the value and priority 

 of his own work. The bibliography of the entire subject is most 

 easily accessible in' any well-arranged botanical library. The lack 

 of consideration to published researches is most marked with re- 

 spect to articles in English and American journals, and while it 

 may not be wilful neglect, yet it is constructive ignorance and 

 speaks most clearly of a careless and unscientific habit of inves- 





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Fig. 2. Various positions assumed by tendrils of Eniada scandens. 



tigation, entirely inexcusable in an author of such extensive ex- 

 perience. Furthermore, it is indicative of a form of narrow pro- 

 vincialism to which the writer has had occasion to call attention 

 more than once. (See Transmission of Impulses in Biopliytitm 

 Bot. Centralb. 77: 297. 1899.) In the present instance it 

 renders Dr. Haberlandt's work untrustworthy to quite a degree. 



CRYPTOGAMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY AT 

 COLD SPRING HARBOR IN 1901 



By Edwin Bingham Copeland 



The Flora. — The field work in cryptogamic botany, carried 

 on in major part by Mr. A. F. Blakeslee, has resulted in a large 



