984 THE AMERICAN ‘NATURALIST. 
Professor D. H. Otis publishes in the last volume of Zransactions 
of the Kansas Academy of Science the results of some experiments 
on the production of root tubercles on Leguminosz by inoculating 
the soil in which they were grown with soil containing the symbiotic 
fungi which cause the tubercles, showing again that it is practicable 
to produce such tubercles by inoculation. 
One hundred and fifty-four Uredinez of Kansas are enumerated by 
Mr. Bartholomew in the last volume of Zransactions of the Kansas 
Academy of Science. 
Mr. J. B. S. Norton has done a useful piece of work in bringing 
together for the last volume of Transactions of the Kansas Academy 
of Science a Baie ses of literature relating to the effects of wind 
on plants. 
The botanical section of the British Association meeting at Dover 
was well attended by the British botanists, and the sessions were full 
of interest. The foreign representation was smaller than has usually 
been the case. Among those who presented papers or took part in 
the discussion were the following: Professor E. G. Bertrand, Pro- 
fessor F. O. Bower, Professor D. H. Campbell, Professor F. Darwin, 
Professor J. B. Farmer, Professor Reynolds Green, Professor M. 
Hartog, Sir Joseph Hooker, Sir George King, Mr. Arthur Lister, 
Dr. D. H. Scott, Professor A. C. Seward, Sir W. T. Thistleton- 
Dyer, Professor Harold Wager, Professor H. Marshall-Ward, and 
others. 
