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Borany In A MEDICAL Course.—From Nature we learn that 
morphology, histology, physiology, and life-history of plants, as 
illustrated by the following types: Saccharomyces, Protococcus, 
Mucor, Spirogyra, Chara or Nitella, a Fern, Pinus, and an angio- 
spermous flowering plant.” 
Is there any medical school in this country, where such an 
intelligently arranged course in elementary botany is provided ? 
00 often, alas, there is no botany at all in our medical courses. 
es ES 
Osituary.—The friends of science, and mycologists especially, 
will learn with regret of the death of Wm. T. Haines, Esq., who 
died suddenly at his residence in West Chester, Pa., on the 2d of ` 
February, 1884. Mr. Haines, in addition to his arduous legal 
duties, has for many years taken a deep interest in scientific pur- 
Suits, and especially in the investigation of the flora of his locality ; 
and the many interesting species contributed to the North Ameri- 
can Fungi, by him and his colleagues of the West Chester My- 
cological Club, will long keep his name in pleasant remembrance 
pte those who turn over the pages of that collection.—/. B. 
is. ; 
Boranicat Norrs.—A fine engraving of the foliage and mature 
cones of Dammara australis, the Kauri Pine of New Zealand, is 
Siven in the Gardener's Chronicle, for October 27th, last. The 
L Rumber for November 3d, contains well-drawn life-size figures of 
eur Yellow-water lily (Nuphar advena).—The October Quarterly 
J E of Microscopical Science, contains an extended article by 
to a sort of gummy degeneration of the tissues of some plant, 
the fungal threads present are saprophytic; the accom- 
e cause. n the same journal several new 
2 are 
: deicated ee by Mr. Scribner. One by Dr. Nagy is 
Holiday s ST Papers, one on Schweinitz (biographical), a Botanical 
oliday in Nova Scotia, Notes on the N. A. forms of Podosphera, 
