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Professor Cheney has published “an historical review of the work 
done on the flora of the territory now included within the limits of 
Wisconsin,” in the Pharmaceutical Review for December and January. 
The sixth fascicle of de Wildeman and Durand’s “ Illustrations de 
la flore du Congo,” in course of publication in the Annales du Musée 
du Congo, of Brussels, bears date of September, 1900. 
The concluding part of Vol. II, and the first part of Vol. III, of 
J. Medley Wood's Wata/ Plants have recently appeared. 
Dr. Henry Kraemer, in the Proceedings of the American Pharma- 
ceutical Association for 1900, proposes the use of living plants in 
drug assaying, to test the strength of certain toxic solutions. Ina 
series of experiments, seedlings of Lupinus albus and Pisum sativum 
were grown in strychnine nitrate, brucine sulphate, and tincture of nux 
vomica solutions of different strengths. The growth of the radicles 
was found to be inversely proportional to the toxicity of the 
solutions. 
In the seventeenth Annual Report of the Wisconsin Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Professor Goff has a paper of interest on the 
development of flower buds on a number of fruit plants, in connec- 
tion with the temperature curve for March and April, in which their 
development was found to lie. 
Students of leaf-form and position will be interested in a paper 
by Raciborski in the Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg, 
Vol. II, Part 
“Open Spaces for the People” is the title of an article by Philip 
MacMahon, curator of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, in the Queens- 
land Agricultural Journal for December, in which a general plan is 
given of that garden and of promenades that it is suggested may be 
connected with it. 
Some profit and a little amusement may be obtained from an 
examination of a recent Consular Report on “school gardens in 
Europe,” among which Consul-General Lincoln of Antwerp includes 
the Kindergartens of that city. 
A compendious volume of statistics concerning the use of wood 
pulp in foreign countries is published as Vol. XIX of the Special 
Consular Reports of our Government. 
The “Diamond Jubilee Number” of the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 
January 5 contains portraits of Lindley, Paxton, Berkeley, and 
