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In Vol. LIII, Part III, of the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences of Philadelphia, Dr. Harshberger has an illustrated paper on 
the ecology of the San Domingo flora. 
Vol. XX of the Acta Horti Petropolitani consists of the first part 
of a “Flora Manshuriz" by V. L. Komarov, occupied with about 
one hundred pages of bibliography and discussion, in Russian, 
followed by the pteridophytes and monocotyledons as far as the 
Orchidacez. 
Hemsley and Pearson publish, in No. 224 of the Journal of the 
Linnean Society (Botany), an account of what is known of the flora 
of Tibet. 
A paper by Willis and Gardiner, on the botany of the Maldive 
Islands, is published in Vol. I, Part II, of the Annals of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. 
In the opening number of the current volume of Nyt Magazin 
Jor Naturvidenskaberne, Prof. N. Wille contrasts the present vege- 
tation of the Norwegian district of Telemarken with the records for 
the same district published by H. J. Wille in 1786. 
A very interesting detailed study of rheotropism, by Professor 
Newcombe, presented at the Chicago meetings of last winter, has 
been published in the Botanical Gazette. 
Mendel’s laws of inheritance in hybrids and crossbreeds are dis- 
cussed by Weldon in Biometrika for January, and by Correns in 
Heft 3 of the current volume of Berichte der deutschen botanischen 
Gesellschaft. 
An illustrated article on caprification as practiced in Algeria, 
appears in the January number of the Revue horticole de l Algérie. 
The self-pruning of plants forms the subject of an article by 
Schaffner in the Ohio Naturalist for January. 
Photosynthesis is being passed in review by André Richter in 
current numbers of the Revue générale de botanique. 
A portrait of the Spanish botanist Colmeiro, with biography, is 
published by Lázaro e Ibiza in Vol. XXX of the Anales de la Sociedad 
Española de Historia Natural. 
A portrait of Alvah A. Eaton forms the frontispiece to the April 
number of the Fern Bulletin. 
A portrait of von Heldreich appears on the first page of the 
Deutsche botanische Monatsschrift for March. 
