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ENGELMANN, WILHELM: Jubiläums Katalog der Verlags- 
buchhandlung Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, 1911, pages 447. 
This beautiful example of the printer's art gives photographic 
reproductions of letters to the firm, buildings and members of 
the firm from 1811 to 1911. It is mainly interesting to the 
botanist because the Wilhelm Engelmann establishment has 
been instrumental in the printing of numerous botanical works 
beginning with Grisebach and ending with Engler. Wilhelm 
Engelmann is the publisher of “ Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamil- 
ien," “Die Vegetation der Erde" and “Das Pflanzenreich." 
The Jubilàums Katalog gives a complete statement of the 
contents of all these works and thus becomes of value to bibliog- 
raphers. It commemorates the centenary of this German 
publishing house.—JoHN W. HARSHBERGER. 
A portrait of Charles Mason Hovey with a short sketch of 
his life has appeared in a recent number of The American Breeders 
Magazine (vol. II, no. 3). Special mention is made of his 
important contribution to horticulture in developing the first 
pistillate strawberry placed upon the market in America and 
from which practically all the present commercial varieties were 
derived, and of his success as an editor, author, plant breeder, 
nurseryman and merchant. He was born in Massachusetts in 
1810 and lived in his native state until his death in 1887.— 
A. B 
A new text-book of microbiology,* such as the present one, is 
a useful compendium consisting of chapters written by a number 
of specialists, who have, under the editorial supervision of Charles 
E. Marshall, provided the fundamental and guiding principles 
which are basic to an interpretation of such subjects as air impuri- 
ties, water supplies, sewage disposal, soils, dairying, fermentation 
industries, food preservation and decomposition, manufacture of 
biological products, transmission of disease, оноу! andi im- 
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ME sanitation, and control of infectio us or cont tagiou 
hall, Charles E. (Editor) and other Contributors :—Microbiology for 
sitar and Domestic Science Students. (Pages i-xxi+1-724. Philadelphia. 
P. Blakiston’s Son & Co.) 
