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NOTES AND LITERATURE 



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Evans contributes .some notes on Jnpanese IIe]);jtie:e to the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Wash ill <lf< III Araihllii/ nj Sclnirr.s for Aii,<:iist. 



A monograph of S\\ i>s ^1 \ \oiii\ cetes. hy Sdiinz, lias l)eeii se|)arately 

 issued from Heft (i of llie M Itln/uni/ni ,!,r luitnnrissnisrhajfUrhni 

 Gesellschaft in Wintertlu.r, lor 



Portraits of Bateson and m-wvA other well known i)lant breeders 

 or botanists are publislied in 'llw Ciinlnin-.s ChroulrJc of August 4. 



MacDougal diseusses diseontiiuions variation in pedigree culture 

 in The Popular Science Muiilhlij for Septenil)er. 



Earle publishes a considerable paj.er on Cuban fungi, with numer- 

 ous half-tone illustrations, in the Priwrr Iiijoniic Aiiiial ilc la Kstacion 

 Central Agrondmica de Cuba, bearing date of June 1. 



A scholarly study of Jugendformen uml Blufenreije im Pjianzen- 

 reich, by Diels, has been issued from the Boi-ntrfPger press of Berlin, 

 as an attractively printed, well illustrated pamphlet of 130 pages. 



The double lunuber of the Botanische Zeitung issued on July 15 is 

 devoted to a i>ai)er by Vrx'liting on regeneration and polarity in the 



tn-e>. is separately iv^ue.l by Tix.n from the niil/ctiii dc la Societe 



Details of .experimental ^tndie-^ of the ellVct of frost on trees are 

 given bv Soraiu>s in vol. i',.'), no. 4, of the I.aiuhrirtschajtliche Jahr- 

 biicher/issiuA in Jnly. 



A series of six well ilhi^trated artielrs on the differentials of trees 

 in winter was published by Profe»or Wee.l in the i.^sues of Forest 

 wid Stream betwe.Mi January C and ^lareh :\\ . of this y(>ar. 



A short app.v<-iative nou- on rn.rbank is printe.l bv de Vries in 

 The Indrpeiidnil ^hxy 17. 



An ilhi.strale<l accounl of th.^ botani.al gard.'n of Cambridge, 

 England, is given by /aim in Dir Cartnnnlt for .Vugnst IS. 



An instructive <lisen»ion of variation^ in animal> and plants is 

 contributed by Jordan to The Popii/ar Srimrr Maiifli/ii for June. 



An account of de Vries and his critics is given by (iager in Science 

 of July 20. 



