508 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VOL. XXXV. 
Forestry receives another important contribution in the Annual 
Report of the Geological Survey of New Jersey for 1899, recently 
issued, which is supplemented by a series of large maps, and illus- 
trated by over thirty well-done plates, many of them illustrative of 
forestry matters abroad. 
A preliminary report on some diseases of New England conifers 
due to fungi, by Dr. von Schrenk of the Shaw School of Botany, 
is published as Buletin 25 of the Division of Vegetable Physiology 
and Pathology of the United States Department of Agriculture, and, 
like Dr. von Schrenk’s earlier papers, is superbly illustrated from 
photographs. 
A second part of Greshoff’s memoir on plants used to stupefy fish 
has recently been published as No. 29 of the Mededeclingen uit 
`s lands plantentuin (of the Buitenzorg Botanical Garden). An idea 
of its extent may be obtained from the statement that the alpha- 
betical index of the species noticed occupies thirty-nine double- 
column pages of large octavo size. 
Part V of Dr. Greshoff ’s * Nuttige Indische Planten,” completing 
the first volume, is issued as an Extra Bulletin by the Koloniaal 
Museum of Haarlem. It concludes with an alphabetical index to 
the fifty plates included in the volume. 
An enumeration of the caoutchouc and guttapercha plants col- 
lected by Van Romburgh in Sumatra, Borneo, Riouw, and Java, 
by the late Dr. Boerlage, constitutes No. 5 of the Bulletin de l` In- 
stitut Botanique de Buitenzorg. 
Dr. E. M. Wilcox reprints some readable “ Glimpses of Tropical 
Agriculture" from a recent number of the Columbus Horticultural 
ournal, 
Rheotropism forms the subject of an interesting paper by Berg in 
the Acta Universitatis Lundensis for 1899, recently received. 
Professor Corbett, in the twelfth Report of the West Virginia 
Experiment Station, describes an important auxanometer and gives 
an account of some of the uses to which he puts it. 
Zoe, in its new form, continues to be almost entirely botanical. 
Several interesting papers on West Coast botany occupy the double 
number for September—October. 
A biographic sketch of the late Judge David F. Day, with portrait, 
appears in the Botanical Gazette for November. 
