BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 501 
Schutzebiete in der Siidsee, by Drs. Karl Schumann and Karl 
a Ai 
The fourth edition of Prof. E. Macé’s Traité pratique de Bactériologie, 
bears on its title-page the date “1901”! it was received in this 
country in October. 
duty to congratulate Mr. G. C. Druce on his election as Mayor o 
Oxford. are indebted to an unknown friend for a copy of the 
Oxford Chronicle for Nov. 16, in which a full account of the pro- 
e 
‘did not think they were all acquainted with Mr. Druce’s position 
in the outside world. If they would permit him, he would read 
a short extract from Who's Who. There they saw that George 
Claridge Druce was apprenticed to f pharmaceutical 
chemists, and afterwards he became President of the Northampton 
Pharmaceutical Society, Secretary of the Northampton Natural 
History Society, and, he believed, he was the founder of that 
Society. Also, he was a member for ten years of the Board of 
Examiners of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great a He 
an author of no mean power. Fic 
(sic), and the University authorities, for his researches and erudition 
in that direction, conferred upon him the honorary degree of Master 
of Arts.” 
of the century. The year’s issue at present consists of four ap- 
pendices, but nothing has appeared of the volume to which they 
are presumably supposed to be appended; and the Bulletin for 
1899 is still incomplete. 
Amone several papers which the pressure on our space has not 
permitted us to notice may be mentioned that on “ Hybridization 
viewed from the standpoint of Systematic Botany,” which Mr, 
R. A. Rolfe contributed to the ‘Hybrid Conference” held in July, 
1899, by the Horticultural Society, and of which we received a copy 
reprinted from the Report of the Conference issued by the Society 
in April last. The paper contains a vas amount of information 
Clarke, will be read with interest:—‘‘ One of these very plants 
