240 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MARCH 
Dr. CHARLES J. CHAMBERLAIN, of the University of Chicago, will visit 
Mexico in March under a grant from the Botanical Society of America to 
procure living and morphological material of certain endemic Mexican 
cycads, 
PROFESSOR FRANCIS E. LLoyb, of Teachers College, New Yerk city, has 
received a grant from the Botanical Society of America to study certain 
problems regarding the se of xerophytes at the Desert Botanical 
Laboratory at the Carnegie Institutio 
Dr. E. W. OLive, who has been working on nuclear division in 
Cyanophyceae during the last year under a Carnegie grant at Bonn, is to 
continue his work under a new grant at the University of Wisconsin in the 
laboratory of Professor R. A. Harper. 
THE STATION for Experimental Evolution, established by the Carnegie 
Institution at Cold Spring Harbor under the directorship of Professor C. B. 
Davenport, has secured the services of Mr. George H. Shull, of the Univer- 
sity of Chicago, to conduct the work in plant-breeding and the study of 
mutations in nature. 
THE FORESTRY department of the University of Michigan has been pro- 
vided with an eighty-acre tract just outside Ann Arbor which is to be used 
for an arboretum of forest trees suitable for the state, model plantations of 
forest trees, and for demonstration and experiment plats. The land is the gift 
of Mr. Arthur Hill, of Saginaw. 
THE RECENT DEATH of M, Emile Bewcherele interrupted the prepara- 
tion of a useful work, a Sy//oge of all the species of mosses described by him. 
M. Jules Cardot, to whom its completion was entrusted, writes that it will 
contain 450 to 500 pages, and that it will need to be published by subscrip- 
tion. It will be possible to print the work at $3 a copy, provided at least 
fifty of the minimum of 140 subscribers necessary to begin the printing can 
be found in the United States. Professor John M. Holzinger, of Winona, 
Minn., will receive names of subscribers. 
A SOCIETY of more than usual promise has been founded in scntaniiys on 
the initiative of Dr. Engler, the “Vereinigung der systematischen Botaniker 
und Pflapzengeographer.”” Their first report, containing an account of ine 
Berlin meeting last autumn is at hand. The purpose of the new organization 
is largely the systematic and unified exploitation of German taxonomy an 
Se Senora The social factor also is concerned in the large response 
o Dr. Engler’s call. Among the schemes which the society hopes to further 
is the preservation of typical natural plant formations. The next meeting is 
to be at Stuttgart, August 4-7, 1904. 
