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Dr. J. A. Allen, Curator of the Department of Mammalogy and 

 Ornithology of the American Museum of Natural History, read 

 a suggestive paper on " The present Outlook for Stability in 

 Nomenclature." He referred to the gradual acceptance of the 

 methods of the American ornithologists by foreign ornithologists 

 and also by American workers in other branches of the biological 

 sciences. 



Longmans, Green and Company have in press an " Elementary 

 Plant Physiology" by Dr. MacDougal, which is intended to re- 

 place the "Experimental Plant Physiology" by the same author 

 published by H. Holt and Company in 1895. The first-named 

 company has purchased all the rights of the older book and de- 

 stroyed the plates, and the edition is entirely exhausted. The 

 new text will present the subject in its simplest technical aspect, 

 and will be uniform in method of treatment with the more ad- 

 vanced Practical Text-Book of Plant Physiology published in 

 1 90 1. 



Dr. Charles Mohr's " Plant Life of Alabama" has been soon 

 followed by "The Flora of Tennessee" written by Augustin 

 Gattinger, M.D., and published by the State of Tennessee through 

 its Bureau of Agriculture. This work consists of an annotated 

 list of the Pteridophytes and Spermatophytes of Tennessee, pre- 

 ceded by an account of the regional distribution of the plants of 

 the State and by a preface containing much interesting autobio- 

 graphical matter, the whole being followed by the " Philosophy 

 of Botany," a historical sketch of the development of the science 

 from the earliest times. 



From the income of the Olivia and Caroline Phelps Stokes 

 Fund for the Protection of Native Plants, the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden has offered three prizes of $50, $30 and $20, each, 

 for the best essays upon the preservation of wild plants, includ- 

 ing shrubs, herbs and trees. Such essays must not exceed three 

 thousand words in length, must be clearly written or type-writ- 

 ten in triplicate, and are to be submitted to the Director-in-Chief 

 not later than February 1, 1902. The successful essays are to 

 be published first in the Journal of the Garden, separates being 



