NEWS. 
A STATE forestry association has been formed in Vermont. 
THE DEATH of Professor Wilhelm Behrens, of Géttingen, has just been 
announced. 
PROFESSOK GASTON BONNIER has been elected president of the Botanical 
Society of France. 
W. ARNOLD has been appointed professor in the University of Charkow 
and director of the botanic garden. 
PROFESSOR H. DE VRIES and R. von Wettstein have been elected 
honorary members of the Berlin Botanical Society. 
SCIENCE announces the death of M. Jean Dufour, professor of plant 
physiology at Lausanne, at the age of forty-three years. Ss 
Tue UNIversity oF MICHIGAN has received from Mr. J, B. Whittier, of 
Saginaw, $4,000 for the endowment of a fellowship in botany, named in honor 
of his mother. 
Dr. WILLIAM C. STURGIS, formerly mycologist of the Connecticut ie 
cultural Experiment Station, has been appointed lecturer in botany at Colo- 
rado College, Colorado Springs. 
THE VERMONT BoTANICAL CuuB held its ninth annual winter ih 
on Thursday and Friday, January 21 and 22, at the Williams Science Build- 
ing of the University of Vermont. 
PROFESSOR FRANCIS RAMALEY, of the University of Colorado, Sash 
Tokyo, Japan, about the middle of January. He will visit Java, Penang, an 
Peradeniya, and will return via Europe. 
Dr. Harry N. Wuitrorp left the University of Chicago “ 
for the Philippine Islands, under appointment for two years as botanical co! 
lector in the government laboratory at Manila. 
R. R. H. Yarp, of Cambridge, England, known for his studies of aio 
Sbeatiows ferns, has been appointed professor of botany in the University 
College of Aberystwyth in succession to Professor J. H. Salter. : 
Dr. H.C. Cow es, of the University of Chicago, has been ers by ag 
department of botany to investigate the everglade region of Florida, using 
the U. S. Subtropical Laboratory at Miami as a base of operations. 
Dr. BRADLEY M. Davis, of the University of Chicago, sailed for ae 
about January 1, to be absent from the university nine m months. pag 
Spring he will occupy a Carnegie table at the Zoological Station, Nap 
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