NEWS. 
Dr. Henry H. Dixon has succeeded Professor E. Percival Wright as 
professor of botany in Trinity College, Dublin. 
MARY PERLE ANDERSON, a graduate student of The University of Chi- 
cago, has been appointed instructor in botany in Mt. Holyoke College. . 
Dr. H. H. Bene, professor of botany in the California College of Phar- 
macy, died in San Francisco March 6, in his 86th year. He was the author 
of the “Flora of the vicinity of San Francisco,” published in 1888. 
IN HIS ACCOUNT of the forest fires in thc Adirondacks in 1903, H. M. 
Suter, of the Bureau of Forestry, reports that over 600,000 acres of timber- 
land in northern New York were burned over, culpable carelessness having 
been responsible for the largest part of the fires. 
IN A RECENT NUMBER of Ber. Deutsch. Bot, Gesells. (Generalversamm- 
lungs-Heft 21:9-66. 1904) the following ect, sketches are published : 
. CELAKOvSK¥, by B. Némec; FRANZ BENECKE, by W. Wieler; ALBERT 
Mes. by P. Graebner; MICHAEL Wicca by S. Nawaschin; EUGEN 
ASKENASY (with portrait), by M. Mobius. 
ProFessor E, L. GREENE has resigned his position at the Catholic 
University of Washington. His very valuable herbarium and library will be 
deposited in the U. S. National Herbarium for a period of ten years. It will 
be moved during June and will be accessible for reference at once, Pro- 
fessor Greene will be an Associate in Botany in the National Museum and 
will have an office in the building. 
THE ANNUAL REPORT of the New York Botanical Garden for 1903 gives 
some conception of the varied interests and great activity of that growing 
establishment. The herbarium is reported to have received an accession of 
84,163 specimens. The privileges of the laboratories, library, and herbarium 
have been granted during the year to forty-six students, including graduates 
of forty different colleges and universities; and the investigations have 
covered a wide range. The work of exploration has been carried on by 
members of the staff and others with remarkable activity, especially among 
the West Indies, collections having been obtained from Cuba, Porto Rico, 
Jamaica, Dominica, Haiti, and Honduras. The Philippine Islands have also 
been invaded, and special collections were made in Arizona and peninsular 
Florida. 
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