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'Professor Dr. Friedrich Hildebraxd, Freiburg, has just retired from 



active ser^ce, 



E. E. BoGUE, professor of forestry in the Agricultural College of 

 , died at Lansing, August 19, after a lingering illness, at the age of 42. 



Dr. H. p. Lyon has resigned his position as assistant professor of botany 

 in the University of Minnesota, to accept a position with the Hawaiian Sugar 

 Planters Association at Honolulu, 



GiNN AND Company have announced A manual of the North American' 

 gymnosperms by Professor D. P. Penhallow. It is to be an account of the anat- 

 omy of the group, together with their systematic presentation on the basis of their 

 vascular anatomy. 



■ Professor J. E. Kirkwood has resigned his position at Syracuse University, 

 ha\ang been appointed assistant to the International Rubber Co., with head- 

 quarters at Torreon, Mexico. Dr. W. L. Bray, University of Texas, has beer*, 

 appointed professor of botany at Syracuse. 



Dr. H. N. WmxroRD, in government service in the Philippines, has been- 

 spending some months in the United States and has now started upon his return- 

 journey. A few weeks are to be spent in the Santa Catalina Mountains with a 

 party from the Desert Botanical Laboratory. 



Among the numerous Linnaean memorial addresses published recently, none 

 is more interesting and sjinpathetic than the one delivered by Professor E. L. 

 Greene at a joint meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Biologicar 

 Society of Washington, and the Botanical Society of Washington. The citation^ 

 is Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 9:241-271. 1907. 



Professor L. M. Underwood has published (Pop. Sci. Monthly 70M97"5iS' 

 1907) a most interesting sketch of "The progress of our knowledge of the flora of 

 North America," a sketch which should be read by th^ whole^eneration of younger 

 botanists, who are in danger of remaining ignorant of the important history and of 

 the great names that lie behind their present work. It is marred by uncalled-for 

 slurs on some whose memorv is to be held in hie^hest honor. 



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