NEWS 



Professor F. H. Billings of the Louisiana State University has been 

 appointed assistant professor of Botany in the University of Kansas. 



A SHORT SKETCH of the late Maxwell T. Masters, with portrait, written by 

 James Britten, is published in Journal of Botany 45 = 257-258. 1907. 



Dr. E, B. Copelaxd declined the announced appointment at the University 

 of West Virginia and immediately returned to his post in the Philippines. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyb has been appointed chief botanist to the 

 Intercontinental Rubber Company. Professor Lloyd's address will for the 

 present be Torreon, 



Dr. Hermann von Schrenk has resigned from the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, and has opened an office as consulting timber engineer at St. Louis. 

 He has been appointed also pathologist of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



It is proposed to erect a memorial to the late Professor Leo Errera of the 

 University of Brussels. American botanists who wish to contribute are requested 

 to send their subscriptions to M, J 



Dr. Fritz Noll, professor of botany in the Agricultural College at Poppels- 

 dorf and assistant professor of botany in the University of Bonn, has been 

 appointed professor of botany and director of the botanic garden at the 

 University of Halle. 



A NEW quarterly journal has been announced by Williams and Norgate 

 (14, Henrietta Street, Convent Garden, London W. C), bearing the name Rivista 

 di Scienza. It is to be "an international review of scientific synthesis," the desire 

 being *4o coordinate the work carried on in different fields of knowledge." It 

 will be issued in two editions: an international edition, in which each article will 

 appear in the language of the author; and an Italian edition, in which the German 

 and English articles will be translated. In the list of writers for the first numbers 

 the names of the following botanists appear: Darwin, Haberlandt, Pirotta, 

 Solla, Wettstein, and Wiesxer. The subscription price is 20 shillings. 



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