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Professor Wettstem of Vienna, after making a study 

 of the hybrids of Sempervivum, comes to the conclusion that 

 the results of crossing In this genus Include an enormous 

 Increase of fertility of the pollen. 



At Munich, on Saturday evening, March 7, a banquet 



was held In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Dr. 

 Goebel's appointment as Professor. A large number of 

 European botanists were present and the occasion was a 

 very Inspiring one. After the banquet, the botanists attended 

 a students' Kommers of the pharmacy students, where more 

 speeches and songs enliv^ened the remainder of the evening. 



The University of JFashington will open its marine 

 station at Friday Harbor, Washingotn, for the 5th annual 

 session, on June 22, 1908. The length of the session will 

 be 6 weeks. The staff will consist of Dr. Charles W. Prentiss 

 of the department of Zoology of the University of Washing- 

 ton, Dr. Robert B. Wylie of the Department of Botany of 

 the University of Iowa, and Professor Charles O. Chambers 

 of Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon. The chief 

 features of the station are its location In the heart of an 

 evergreen forest In the winter rain belt, the abundance of 

 marine plants and animals, its constant use of the dredge, 

 and its small fees ($13.00). 



Dr. Charles A. Davis of the University of Michigan, 

 connected with the Michigan Geological and Natural History 

 Survey, and acting as peat expert of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey at the recent Jamestown Exposition, has had his 

 appointment to the latter made permanent, in order to make 

 a thorough study of the nature and origin of peat. He finds 

 that many salt marshes along the Atlantic coast are underlain 

 by peat, formed from fresh water plants, and that they may 

 throw much light on the history of subsidence of this coast. 

 The Michigan Survey has recently published a report embody- 

 ing a series of papers by Dr. Davis, treating of the origin, 

 nature, distribution, and commercial aspects of the large peat 



