686 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. | [Vor. XXXIX. 
A portrait of B. L. Robinson is published in the Popular Science 
Monthly for February. 
The Journals. — With January, a new journal, Ze Nature Study 
Review, appears under the editorship of Professor M. A. Bigelow 
with a strong advisory board. It contains much of interest to the 
teaching botanist. 
The Iowa Naturalist is a new venture launched by T. J. Fitzpatrick 
from Iowa City. 
An attractive new periodical, Zhe Garden Magazine, is begun by 
Doubleday, Page & Co., the first number issued being for February. 
Botanical Gazette, January: — True and Oglevee, * Effect of the 
Presence of Insoluble Substances on the Toxic Action of Poisons” ; 
Livingston, * Relation of Soils to Natural Vegetation in Roscommon 
and Crawford Counties, .Mich."; Elmer, “New and Noteworthy 
Western Plants”; Olive, “ Morphology of Monascus purpureus" ; 
Davis, * Fertilization in the Saprolegniales," and * The Sexual Organs 
and Sporophyte Generation of the Rhodophycez.” 
Botanical Gazette, February: — Barnes, “ The Theory of Respira- 
tion”; Whitford, “The Forests of the Flathead Valley, Montana — 
I”; Holm, “Studies in the Graminez: — VIII, Munroa squarrosa? ; 
Chamberlain, * Alternation of Generations in Animals from a Botani- 
cal Standpoint ” ; Ganong, *New Precision-Appliances for Use in, 
Plant Physiology — II." 
Botanical Gazette, March : — Coulter and Land, * Gametophytes 
and Embryo of Torreya taxifolia” ; Olsson-Seffer, “The Principles 
of Phytogeographic Nomenclature ” ; Whitford, “ The Forests of the 
Flathead Valley, Montana — II ”; Arthur, “Terminology of the . 
Spore Structures in the Uredinales.” | 
nx no. 6. — Heller, * Western Species, New and Old — 
ology”; Fink, “How to Collect and Study Lichens”; Holzinger, 
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gus"; Crockett, “ Rhacomitrinm heterostichum gracilescens? 
: Buien of the Torrey. Botanical Club, December : — Emerson, 
Notes on the Blackening of Baptisia tinctoria ” ; Rydberg, “ Studies 

