NOTES AND NEWS. 
Prof. W. A. Setchell is spending his vacation in studying the 
flora of the Hawaiian Islands. 
Prof. J. W. Tuomey of the University of Arizona has been 
appointed Assistant Professor of Forestry at Yale. The courses 
offered by him will be Forest Botany, Outlines of Forestry, 
Forest Planting and Sowing, Forest Technology, Lumbering 
and Forest Protection. Prof. Tuomey has many friends in the 
west, who are loth to spare him, even for his own advancement. 
Prof. F. H. Hildman of the Agricultural College of Nevada 
has resigned the Chair of Botany in that institution. His loss 
is likely to be severely felt. 
Miss Susan G. Stokes of the Salt Lake High School is spend- 
ing her vacation with her parents at Chollas Valley, San Diego. 
The monograph of the large genus Eriogonum on which she has 
been engaged for several years is approaching completion. 
Dr. Edward Palmer is engaged at Washington, in arranging 
the mass of notes connected with his many years of botanical 
collecting. 
