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manifested by animals and plants or the causes of those phe- 

 nomena; the study of living matter. An accompanying para- 

 graph says "Systematic biology includes (i) zoology, (2) botany, 

 and in some systems of classification, (3) anthropology. 



Remarks by representatives of a limited number of teachers of 

 botany have indicated an awareness of this misuse of the term, 

 and a feeling that teachers of zoology are, perhaps unconsciously, 

 responsible, through a loose use of the term in class room reference 

 or through using the broader term in titles for courses which 

 deal almost entirely with zoological subject matter. 



On the other hand, one teacher of zoology feels that the real 

 explanation lies in the fact that botanists are less aware of the 

 progress in the zoological world, and limit illustration and ampli- 

 fication to the field of botany, while teachers of zoology draw 

 freely from botany even in courses termed zoological, making 

 the range of general subject matter as broad in courses in zoology 

 as in those rightly called biology. 



If this is so the remedy lies with the departments of botany. 

 The whole field of biology is theirs, though they may actively 

 labor in but part of it. If the fault lies in the attitude of the 

 zoology departments the remedy is a simple one, and can be 

 accomplished by an introductory definition of botany, with a 

 few sentences showing its relation to the other divisions of biology. 



In the August Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Cluh Mr. Eugene 

 P. Bicknell raises the question, "Have we enough New England 

 blackberries?" Mr. Bicknell characterizes the blackberries as 

 possessing "an extraordinary natural variability and undoubt- 

 edly, also, a facility in hybridizing which is perhaps not exceeded 

 in any other genus of our flora." A list showing the probable 

 hybrid derivation of many of the species is included. 



The last "memoir" of the Torrey Botanical Club (XIV, part 2) 

 is by Ormond Butler on Observations on the California Vine 

 Disease. This disease, now on the decline, is found to be "due 

 to some weakness in the functions of absorption and translocation 

 of water becoming manifest when conditions favoring transpira- 



