322 Scientific Intelligence. 



10. The Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, Java. — Dr. Treub 

 (Cornptes rendus, cviii, 211, Feb., 1889) says that the Garden com- 

 prises three parts. (1), the Botanic Gai'den, properly so-called, at 

 Buitenzorg, consisting of a collection of between eight and nine 

 thousand species of plants, (2), that at Tjibodas, situated in one of 

 the most mountainous districts, at an altitude of 1500 meters, 

 and (3), the Experimental Garden in the Tjikeumeuh quarter, 

 where are the plantations for i*aising the plants which possess 

 economic use in the tropics. In the Garden at Buitenzorg, be- 

 sides the Bureau of Administration, there is a museum, together 

 with an herbarium. There is also a laboratory equipped for 

 physiological and phytochemical research. A photographic 

 studio completes the outfit. The whole institution is now so 

 arranged that botanists can carry on their investigations under 

 the most favorable auspices. In fact, it is the design of the di- 

 rection to make it as useful to Botany as the zoological station 

 at Naples, is to zoology. For the support of the establishment, 

 the Government of the Dutch East Indies grants annually the 

 sum of 150,000 francs. g. l. g. 



11. The Structure of the " Crown*? of the -Hoot. — Leoi* Flot 

 (Comptes rendus, cviii, 306, Feb., 1889) gives the results of his ex- 

 amination of the histology of the zone where the stem joins the 

 root. He regards this tissue system as a special structure. Morpho- 

 logically speaking, this part may be said to possess, besides stem 

 proper, a larger or smaller section of the epicotyledonary axis, 

 and it appears to be derived directly from the nodal portion 

 previously existing in the embryo. g. l. g. 



obituary. 

 Mr. U. P. James, long and "well-known to geologists and pale- 

 ontologists as a student of the fossils of the Cincinnati Group, 

 died at his residence near Loveland, Clermont County, Ohio, on 

 February 25th in his 78th year. He was born December 30th, 

 1811, in Goshen, New York and went to Cincinnati in 1831 where 

 he has since resided. He established himself in the book-selling 

 and publishing business in connection with his brother Joseph A. 

 James, but afterwards continued the business by himself. As a 

 recreation he interested himself in the sciences of conchology and 

 paleontology and amassed a very large collection of the shells 

 and fossils of the locality in which he lived. Many of the latter 

 were described by himself while others were described in volumes 

 of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Meek, Hall and Whitfield. 

 He published the first catalogue of fossils of the Cincinnati 

 Group, contributed papers to the Cincinnati Quarterly Journal 

 of Science, the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural 

 History, and published the Paleontologist in seven issues. The 

 study of conchology occupied his earlier years, but in later life 

 he devoted his time to paleontology. He was married in 1847 

 and leaves a widow, two sons and three daughters. The older 

 son manages the business affairs in Cincinnati, while the younger 

 is connected with the U. S. Geological Survey. 



