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George H. Curtis has several lists of Kansas diatoms in the Zran- 
sactions of the Kansas Academy of Science for 1899—1900. 
The flora of the Azores receives an important addition through the 
publication in Vyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne of a paper on the 
fresh-water diatoms of the archipelago, by Holmboe. The species 
are European rather than American, and are believed to have been 
introduced by adhering to migratory birds. 
Professor Hitchcock publishes a list of additions to his * List of 
Plants in my Florida Herbarium" in Vol. XVII of the Zransactions 
of the Kansas Academy of Science. 
Native Kansas plants adapted to cultivation are discussed by 
Grace R. Meeker in Vol. XVII of the Zransactions of the Kansas 
Academy of Science. 
The Journal of Applied Microscopy for October contains an illus- 
trated article on the botanical laboratory and garden of the Imperial 
University at Tokyo, by Miyake. 
An excellent portrait of the late Professor Cornu accompanies the 
September number of the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. 
The Fern Bulletin for October contains a portrait of Thomas 
Meehan. 
Trabut begins an illustrated article on caprification as practiced in 
Algeria, in the Revue Horticole of November 9. 
A Flora of the Presidency of Bombay, by Theodore Cooke, is in 
course of publication by Taylor & Francis of London. The familiar 
sequence of orders of Bentham and Hooker is followed, and the 
single part thus far issued reaches into Rutacez. 
An extensive report on a botanical survey of the Dismal Swamp 
region, by Thomas H. Kearney, forms the concluding number of 
Vol. V of the Contributions from the United States National Herba- 
rium, issued under date of November 6. 
The plants of western Lake Erie are considered as to their eco- 
logical anatomy and distribution by A. J. Pieters in a paper sepa- 
rately printed from the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 
for r9or. 
Vol. III of Professor Greene's Plante Bakeriame begins with a 
fascicle of thirty-six pages devoted almost exclusively to the eme 
tion of new species from Mr. Baker’s collections of 1901, on the 
Gunnison watershed of Colorado. 
