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The courses in botany at Woods Holl during the coming 

 sunnner will he given by Dr. George T. Moore and Professor 

 George li. Lvman. 



The fourth annual announcement of the Marine Station of 

 the University of Washington has been received. The building 

 to be used stands on the shores of Puget Sound, at Friday Har- 

 bor. Professor Henry C. Cowles, of the University of Chicago, 

 is to give a series of lectures in Elementary Plant Ecology, and 

 Professor T. C. Frye of the University of Washington will give 

 a course on the Classification of Plants. The session extends 

 from June 24: to xVugust 2. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd has been appointed Special In- 

 vestigator in the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, to 

 study certain problems connected with the development of the 

 date fruit. 



Tlie Nehrasha Legislature has just passed a bill giving 

 $7,500 for the biennium, for the work of investigation and 

 control of fungus diseases and insect pests, the work to be in 

 charge of State Botanist and State Entomologist. 



Dr. C. J. ChamherJa'ni aiul Dr. H. C. Coivles have recently 

 been promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



The announcement lias come to hand that an illustrated 

 journal of scientific news, under the title of "Discovery," has 

 been established, the first number of which will be issued by the 

 Irving Press, 119 E. 31st street, of New York. The new jour- 

 nal will 1)0 edited by Mr. John W. Harding, who has resigned 

 from the staff of the Neiu Yortr Times to take up his duties in 

 connection with the new project. Mr. Harding is an experi- 

 enceil journalist and has displayed signal ability in the accurate 

 presentation of scientific results in popular language, and the 

 project has the endorsement of Dr. H. C. Bumpus, Director of 

 the American Museum of ISTatural History, and Dr. E. S. Wood- 

 ward, President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 among others. 



