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NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Geo. L. Goodale has returned from his tour around the 

 world. 



A new genus of orchids, from Australia, Adelopetalum by name, is 

 described by R. D. Fitzgerald in Jour. Bot (May). 



Dr. Lucien M. Underwood has resigned his chair at Syracuse 

 University to accept the professorship of botany at De Pauw Univer- 

 sity. 



Decades IX and X of Underwood and Cook's Hepaticae Ameri- 

 canae have been issued, and two more are almost ready for distri- 

 bution. 



Dr. A. N. Berlese has been called to the position of professor of 

 botany and plant-pathology at the Royal School of Viticulture, at 

 Avellino. 



Dr. W. A. Setchell, assistant in biology at Harvard University has 

 been appointed to a similar position at Yale University. The depart- 

 ment is under the charge of Prof. S. J. Smith. 



In the Journal of Botany (May), the editor protests vigorously 

 against Professor Henslow's theory of environment as an origin of 

 species, as being a theory unsupported by facts. 



Dr. W. C. Sturgis, who has been assistant in cryptogamic botany 

 at Harvard University has been appointed botanist to the Connecticut 

 Agricultural Experiment vice Dr. Thaxter, resigned. 



Dr. B. L. Robinson, assistant in the Gray Herbarium for the past 

 year, has been compelled to resign the position on account of ill health 

 resulting from poisoning due to the arsenic used in preserving the 



specimens 



In the report of the Division of Forestry of the Department of 

 Agriculture for 1890, it is shown that forestry is taught in the Agricul- 

 tural Colleges of 17 states, and in 8 of them it is only incidentally 

 touched upon. 



Vaseyanthus is a new genus of cucurbits from Lower California, 

 described in Zoe (Feb.) by A. Cogniaux. Associated with Dr. George 

 Vasey in the name is that of his assistant Mr. Rose, the plant appear- 

 ing as V. Rosei. 



A catalogue of Nebraska phanerogams has been published by Pro- 

 fessor Swezey, of Doane College, Crete, Nebr. The list, numbering 

 533 species and varieties, contains only those plants represented in the 

 college herbarium. 



Dr. Roland Thaxter, of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment 

 station, has been elected assistant professor of the cryptogamic bot- 

 any at Harvard University. In the probable absence of Dr. Farlow 

 next year he will have charge of his work. 



Dr. and Mrs. Britton sailed for England June 6 Dr. B. takes a 

 portion of Dr. Morong's S. American plants to Kew for determination 

 and Mrs. B. expects to visit several ot the bryological herbaria for 

 study and comparison of American mosses. 



