No. 416. REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 6 
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Dr. Clements, of the University of Nebraska, is to conduct a class 
in field ecology in the higher mountains of Colorado next summer, 
extending through the months of July and August. The class should 
be large and enthusiastic. 
The photosynthetic activity of chlorophyll occurring below corky 
tissue in the stems of several plants is discussed by Mlle. Goldflus 
in the Revue Générale de Botanique of February 15. 
The apparatus of transpiration, or sudation, as the author prefers 
to call it, is discussed by Goffart in Vol, XXXIX of the Bulletin dela 
Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique. 
“The Indian doctor's dispensatory, being Father Smith's advice 
respecting diseases and their cure, by Peter Smith of the Miami 
country," published in Cincinnati in 1812, is reprinted as No. 2 of 
the “reproduction series” of the Buletin of the Lloyd Library. It 
is accompanied by a biography by John Uri Lloyd. 
A neat little book on alpine plants and their cultivation, by W. A. 
Clark, has been brought out for the author by L. Upcott Gill of 
London and Charles Scribner’s Sons of New York. It is illustrated 
by a number of exquisite half-tones showing some of the choicer 
species as grown in artificial rockeries. 
Portraits of a number of the American botanists of the last two 
centuries are published in the recently issued second part of the 
Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1896-7. 
