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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



Mr. C. p. Nott of Brown University has been appointed 

 Assistant in Botany in the University of California. 



The Botanical Gazette, now the property of the University 

 of Chicago, will be published in 1896 and thereafter in two 

 yearly volumes. The June number closes Vol, XXI. The 

 editorial control remains unchanged, except that a number of 

 associate -editors are to be added. Those for America are 

 Prof. G. F. Atkinson of Cornell University, Prof. V. M. 

 Spalding of Michigan University, Prof. Eoland Thaxter of 

 Harvard University and Dr. William Trelease of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden. 



The editor of the Journal of Botany chronicles in the 

 June number the decease of Erythea. The infallible Mr. 

 Britten has hitherto been pressed to confusion by his haz- 

 ardous remarks concerning Erythea and those^who control 

 its fate, hence it might seem^ that before a second venture a 

 casual glance at the list of recent literature in the Botanisches 

 Centrall-Blatt or the Torrey Bulletin would have been made 

 to secure possible negative evidence in the absence of 

 positive information. The news- column in the Journal 18 

 of tea very entertaining on account of the frequency, witb. 

 wiiicli the editor visits the lash upon an unlucky countryman 

 for irregularity of publication or some bibliographic sin 

 caused by failure to look up, or interpret aright, an accessible 

 reference. Nevertheless we may hereafter be excused for 

 cherishing doabts as to the reliability of the information 

 which Mr. Britten diffuses. 



Mr. Willis L. Jepson, through the courtesy of the 

 Regents of the University of California, has left for the east, 

 to spend the fall and early winter months of this year in 

 Cambridge, Mass., at the Gray Herbarium. 



