474 Scientific Intelligence. . 
the result of his own assiduous Rr RRR: he concludes that 
the malady is really due to a particular fungus, mor- 
ao weinitz in ultimate development, but in earlier state a 
Cladosporium ; that it is not at all the work of insects nor an 
knit malady. The only remedy as yet en is — 
~ 
Cooke, Handbook of British Fungi, with full Deutigitaas 
of vl a ibeaiae and ones of the Genera. London; 
Macmillan & Co., 1871, pp. 981, in two volumes, 12mo.—This is 
the work mentioned in the picending article, and the one by which 
American students are to acquire a knowle edge e of our own Fun 
until the wished-for day arrives in widolioah we may have a Mycolo- 
ia of our own. No better model than this could be asked for. 
By its aid good progress can be made in the study of our own 
species ; and it will be interesting to know that the occurrence of 
any British species in this country, so far as yet recorded, is dul 7 
mentioned in these volumes. Copious and characteristic woo 
matur a views in soe rT but these views are most erie and 
te 4 presented, a 
ntelligence.—At the very time in which this welcome “aid is 
supplied to those who would enter upon the study of our Fungi, 
we have to lament the sudden death of our veteran mycologist, 
. the Rev. Dr. M. A. Curtis, of Hillsborough, North Carolina. He 
died on the 10th of April, just before completing the 64th year of 
his <r A biographical notice will be given later. 
. Hugo von Mohl, the prince of vegetable anatomists 
- our d day, was found dead in his bed on the morning of the first 
of April. 
of. A. de Bary is transferred from Halle to the University 
of Strasburg, and Dr. Hermann Count Solms-Laubach is appointe 
extraordinary Professor of Botany,—a strong botanical professorate 
ft erman University. 
Dr. “Ml cNab, late Professor of Botany at the Agricultural Col- 
lege at Cirencester, has been Ae people —-. at the — Col- 
The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, since “the 
i of Dr. Seemann, edited by Dr. Trimen of the a ish Mu- 
seum, and Mr. Baker of the Royal Herbarium, Kew appa 
rently entered upon a career of assured prosperity. An crea 
ood aipersvens of the late editor adorns the ‘ebruary nu number (an 
receiv 
Dr, costes contributes some Histological Notes ; ; one of a 
pointing out the fact that Cynara Scolymus (the Atichole) 
he woody bundles of the stem scattered through the cell 
tissue after the manner of Niymphwacew and Cucurbita 
an apparently endogenous character. He also describes certain 
