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Sr. J. Barbosa Rodrigues, director of the botanic garden of Rio de 
Janeiro, under the title 4s ZZeveas ou Seringueiras. 
In No. 1197, “ Advance Sheets," of Consular Reports is reprinted 
from the Venezuelan Herald an article by Dr. L. Morisse on rubber 
culture and manufacture in Venezuela from species of Hevea. 
Dr. Peckolt is publishing a series of articles on the medicinal 
plants of Brazil in the Berichte of the German Pharmaceutical 
Society, and an alphabetic list of Portuguese and Tupi names for the 
economic plants of the same country in the Pharmaceutical Archives. 
Stem and bark anatomical studies of Hamamelis (by Jensen) and 
Myrica (by Krembs) are published in the Pharmaceutical Archives 
for July. 
From No. 3 of the Bulletin du Jardin Impérial Botanique de 
St.-Pétersbourg it appears that 33,697 species and varieties of plants 
were cultivated in that establishment last year. Some of the princi- 
pal groups grown under glass are represented as follows : ferns, 798 ; 
orchids, 1433; cacti, 748; palms, 402; cycads, 60; conifers, 567; 
heaths, 186; aroids, 585; bromeliads, 420; succulents, chiefly agaves 
and aloes, 991. The plants grown in the open air comprise: trees 
and shrubs, 1240 species and varieties; perennials, 4385; and annu- 
als, 1410. Over 37,000 persons visited the plant houses during the 
year. 
It may not be generally known that an account of the government 
gardening in the District of Columbia is each year included in the 
Report of the Chief of Engineers. The volume for rgoo contains a 
list of the woody plants cultivated about the White House. 
Sr. Rodrigues, director of the botanic garden of Rio de Janeiro, 
has begun the publication of a series of French Contributions du 
Jardin Botanique de Rio de Janeiro in quarto pamphlet form. 
The tendency of some German investigators to confine their 
examination of the literature of subjects they investigate to publica- 
tions by their fellow-countrymen is not inopportunely, if somewhat 
caustically, commented upon by Dr. MacDougal in Torreya for 
November. : 
An excellent portrait of the late Thomas Meehan is published sae 
Meehans’ Monthly for December, and a biogr aphic sketch in the 
January number. | 
Vol. XXVI of the botanical Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps- 
Akademiens Handlingar, forming a thick volume, contains a wide 
