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Dr. G. R. Wielano, Yale University, is spending five months in Europe in 

 a study of the collections of cycads. 



Franxis Darwin has been nominated by thj council president of tht^ British 

 Association for its Dublin meeting next year. 



Sir Joseph Hooker was awarded the Linnean gold medal of the Royal 

 Swedish Acadt,my at the Linnean bicentenary. 



Dr. J. B. Overton, hitherto instructor, has been promoted to be assistant 

 professor of botany in the University of Wisconsin. 



F. M. Andrews, associate professor of botany in Indiana University, has 

 leave of absence for a year of study in Germany. 



Rob. E. Fries has published an extended account of the life and work of 

 Linnaeus in Engler's Botanische Jahrhiicher (41 : 1-54. 1907). 



Professor William Trelease received the degree of doctor of laws at the 

 fiftieth anniversary of Washington University, St. Louis. 



Dr. Mintin a. Chrysler, instructor in botany in Harvard University has 

 been appointed professor of botany in the University of Maine. 



The gold medal of the Linnean Society, London, has been awarded to 

 Dr. Melchtor Treub, Director of the Botanical Garden at Buitenzorg. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, editor of The Gardeners* Chronicle, and especi- 

 ally interested in the classification of conifers, died May ^Oj at the age of 74 years. 



Dr. H. Hasselbring, University of Chicago, has been appointed assistant 

 botanist at the Government Agricultural Experiment Station, Las V^gas, Cuba. 



Dr. J. E. KiRKWooD has been promoted to a professorship of botany in 

 ^ Syracuse University, and the sub'ect is now recognized as a distinct department. 



botany 



Dakota. 



appointed professor of botany 



Dr. Henry C. Cowles, University of Chicago, left on June 20 with a 

 party of twenty-two students, to spend six weeks in Oregon and six weeks in 

 Alaska in ecological study. 



F, E. Lloyd has been apfx)inted special investigator in the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Tucson, Arizona, lo study certain problems connected with 

 the development of the date. 



Dr. E. N. Transeau, now at the Carnegie Station for Experimental Kvolu- 



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