NEWS. 
PROFESSOR E,. WARMING, of Copenhagen, has been elected a member 
of the Paris Academy of Sciences. 
Dr. CARL VON MARCHESETTI, director‘of the Museum of Natural History 
at Trieste, has been appointed director of the Botanical Gardens. 
Dr. B. E. Livineston, of the University of Chicago, has been awarded 
the Walker prize by the Boston Society of Natural History for a paper on 
Tonic stimulation in plants. 
THE DEATH of Dr. August Garcke, professor of botany in Berlin and a 
curator of the Royal Botanical Museum, has been announced. He is best 
known as author of a Flora of Germany. 
Proressor F. S, EARLE, of the New York Botanical Garden, has been 
asked by the Cuban government to aid in the establishment of a Department 
of Agriculture. He has been granted leave of absence from the Garden for 
this purpose. 
Onto STATE UNIVERSITY has announced the work at its lake laboratory 
for the summer of 1904. The Cedar Point Lake Laboratory has an admira- 
ble location on Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio; it opens June 27 and closes 
August 5; and the courses in botany will be given by Professor W.A. Keller- 
man. The director is Professor Herbert Osborn, Ohio State University, 
Columbus. 
THE DEATH of Dr. Karl Schumann, professor of botany in Berlin and a 
curator of the Royal Botanical Museum, has been announced. His numerous 
contributions to the morphology and taxonomy of flowering plants are well 
known, and especially his recent studies of the Cactaceae. A great collection 
of living representatives of this perplexing family was enabling Dr. Schumann 
to come to some very definite conclusions concerning their classification, 
and it is a great loss to taxonomy that these studies were not much further 
advanced. 
Dr. Jost RAMIREZ, for many years head of the section of botany of the 
Instituto Medico Nacional of the City of Mexico, died recently. He has for 
many years been one of the leading scientific men of Mexico and perhaps 
has done more than any other person to develop botanical research in that 
country. He has also occupied for a long time the position of secretary to 
the Board of Health of Mexico, where he has accomplished much in bettering 
the sanitary conditions in that country. He is the author of some thirty-seven 
papers on botanical subjects, a list of which is published as a supplement to 
his Sinonimia vulgar y cientifica de las plantas published in 1902.—~ 
N. ROSE. 
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