No. 399.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 24I 
Mary A. Day, of the ‘Gray Herbarium, has just distributed a pam- 
phlet,! reprinted from Vol. I of &hodora, in which 258 titles of 
books and papers referring to the flora of New England are cited, 
bringing the record down to the end of 1899. Miss Day’s pains- 
taking care, and the exceptional facilities afforded by the great libra- 
ries clustered about Boston and the interest in her work of the 
members of the New England Botanical Club, have resulted in the 
compilation of a bibliographic aid which should be in every botanical 
library in the country. T. 
Botanical Notes. — The Zenth Annual Report of the President 
of Columbia University states that the herbarium and the principal 
part of the botanical library.of that institution have been transferred 
to the New York Botanical Garden, while for the future the advanced 
work in botany of the University will be carried on in the laborato- 
ries of the Garden. By this combination of the resources of the 
University with those of the Garden, the latter gains, it is stated, at 
the beginning of its career, a scientific equipment and a scientific 
importance which otherwise it could hope to achieve only slowly, 
while the University receives at once the advantage of the added 
facilities of the Garden, which, now considerable, will become of the 
greatest importance as the years go on. The Garden has inaugu- 
rated a new publication, under the title of Journal, which is intended 
to give popular information on the development and work of the 
establishment, and is to be edited by Dr. MacDougal. 
The “Talcott Arboretum” of Mount Holyoke College, as appears 
from a recent number of American Gardening, is a glazed structure 
covering 6430 square feet and with a maximum height of 27 feet 
9 inches. 
The question of the classification of odors and their use in dis- 
tinguishing things is again raised by W. C. Alpers in a paper on 
* Odor Standards,” in the Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical 
Association, Vol. XLVII, p. 221. He suggests a classification for . 
the use of pharmacists, based on the chemical compounds which 
produce the odor sensations by reacting on the olfactory serum. 
Odor classifications, like that of Linnzus, and that of flower odors by 
Delpino, have their value at present, but rest on a more indefinite 
foundation than that proposed by Mr. Alpers. Kerner has given 
1 Day, M. A. The Local Floras of New England. 8vo, 28 pp. Cambridge, 
1899. 35 cents. 
