No. 466.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 765 
A paper by Chauveaud on the secretory apparatus of Taxus is 
published in no. 7 of the Bulletin du Museum d’ Histoire Naturelle 
of Paris for 1904. 
Papers on the bamboos are being published by Bureau in current 
numbers of the Bulletin du Muséum a’ Histoire Naturelle, of Paris. 
Botanically interesting studies of the sand-drift problem in New 
South Wales are contributed by Maiden and McMaster to vol. 37 of 
the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 
recently issued. 
An account of aluminum as an important element in certain trees 
is published by H. G. Smith in vol. 37 of the Journal and Pro- 
ceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 
The Journals. — Torreya, April: — Harper, * Some Noteworthy 
Stations for Pinus palustris" ; Murrill, * Terms applied to the Sur- 
face and Surface Appendages of Fungi”; King, “ Experiment to 
show that the Absence of Light alone will Prevent the Process of 
Photosynthesis ”; Parish, “ Birds and Mistletoe — a Correction” ; 
Cockerell, * The Name Melampodium." 
The Plant World, March : — Nash, “A Trip to the Inaguas” 
Arthur, “On the Nomenclature of Fungi having Many Fruit 
Forms”; Streeter, ^A Treasure Spot of Wild Flowers"; Wiegand, 
“The Biology of Buds and Twigs in Winter.” 
The Ohio Naturalist, April:— Claasen, “Key to the Liverworts 
recognized in the Sixth Edition of Gray's Manual of Botany"; 
- Smith, “Key to the Ohio Elms in the Winter Condition"; Gleason, 
“Notes from the Ohio State Herbarium — III ": Riddle, “ Devel- 
opment of the Embryo Sac and Embryo of Staphylea trifoliata." 

GEOLOGY. 
Merrill's A Treatise on Rocks, Rock-weathering, and Soils.'— 
This work, which appeared in 1897, was reprinted from electrotype 
plates in 1904, with an inserted list of errata which apparently the 
method of reprinting precluded embodying in the text. This work 
1 Merrill, George P. A Treatise on Rocks, Rock-weathering, and Soils. New 
York, The Macmillan Co., 1904. 8vo, xx + 411 PP-, 25 pls., 42 text figs. $4.00. 
