NEWS 



HoiTER D. House has resigned the associate professorship of botany and 

 bacteriology in Clemson College, S. C. 



TnoiiAs D. Eason, a graduate of the Clemson Agricultural College, has 

 accepted a position as assistant in botany at the North Carolina Agricultural 



College. 



Karl Giesenhagen, 



, has been appointed 



Munich. 



address of Professor Fraxcis E. Lloyd 



InvestigatioUj Continental-Mexican Division, Inter-continental Rubber Company, 



Mexico 



TERBURY 



at the instigation of Professor L 



Cockayx 



mountains, where the mountain flora of New Zealand can be studied under natural 

 conditions. The site selected includes a virgin forest, about 300 acres in extent, 

 of Nolliofagus diffortioides. 



The MacMillan Company announce for publication in the autumn a prac- 

 tical textbook of plant pathology, by D.T. MacDougal, F, S. Earle, and H. M. 

 Richards; Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, by Richard Spruce, 

 edited by Alfred Russell Wallace; The physiology of plant production, by 

 B. M. Duggar; Bacteria in relation 'to agriculture, by J. G. Lipman; and a new 

 edition of Mlir and Ritchie's Manual of bacteriology. 



The government of New Zealand has planned a magnetic, botanical, zoo- 

 logical, and geological survey of the Auckland and Campbell Islands, the expedi- 

 tion sailing early in November. The botanists will be as follows: L. Cockl^yne, 

 ecologist; T. F. Cheeseman, floristic botanist; R. M. LaniG, algologist, and 

 A. H. Cockayne, plant pathologist. The survey was first proposed and the 

 details arranged by the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, a branch of the 

 New Zealand Institute. 



1 The next meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 



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Science will be held during Convocation Week, at the University of Chicago. 

 The sessions of Section G will be held in the Hull Botanical Laboratory. Inas- 

 much as the Secretary of the Section is at too great a distance for quick mail ser\ice, 

 it is particularly requested that titles of papers to be read be sent directly to Dr. 

 Henry C. Cowles, University of Chicago, Chicago, so that the Secretary, upon 

 his arrival, may have all business promptly in hand. — F. E. Lloyd, Secretary 

 Section G. 



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