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Volume VI of the * Flore de France" of Rouy and Foucaud, 
devoted to Rosacez, appears as the 1899 Annales de P Académie de 
La Rochelle, and is ascribed to Rouy and Camus. 
The public school department of Carthage, Mo., where nature 
study of the most practical kind has taken firm root through the 
efforts of Professor Stevens, the superintendent, has now begun the 
publication of a series of “Nature Study Leaflets,” dealing with 
common objects. 
Progress in American agriculture and the sciences upon which 
it rests is well sketched in the voluminous Yearbook of the United 
States Department of Agriculture for 1899, recently issued. 
Part IX, recently published, completes the second volume of the 
Bulletin of the Bussey Institution, which has been in progress since 
the year 1877. A table of contents and an index make the subject- 
matter of the volume accessible. 
Forestry in Sweden is reported on by General Andrews, late 
United States Minister to that country, in a Senate Document 
recently issued. 
The conditions of success in grafting are discussed by Daniel 
in current numbers of the Revue générale de botanique. 
Dr. P. Van Romburgh publishes an important paper on Caout- 
chouc and Gutta-percha in the Dutch Indies, as No. 39 of the 
Mededeelingen of the Buitenzorg Botanic Garden. 
A biographical sketch, with portrait, of Klatt, whose writings on 
Iris and certain Composite are familiar to all working botanists, is 
reprinted by Voigt from the Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissen- 
schaftlichen Anstalten for 1898. 
A portrait of the late Sir J. B. Lawes, whose field experiments on 
the physiology of agricultural plants, extending over many years, 
are known to all botanists, appears in Science Gossip for October. 
PALEONTOLOGY. 
Traquair’s Presidential Address, Bradford, 1900. — The Zoó- 
logical Section of the British Association, in its choice of Dr. 
Traquair for president, paid a graceful tribute to a scientist whose 
researches during the past thirty-five years have conduced more 
