assistant director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Edward W. Berry spent the summer in collecting Mesozoic and Pk 

 fossil plants in Virginia and North and South Carolina. 



Mr. T. D. Beckwith, Department of Agriculture, has been 



bgy 



iral College and Experiment Station, Fs 

 J. H. SCHAFFNER, professor of botany 



been granted leave of absence of one year to study in Germany. His work at 



Michiga 



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the late Maxwell T. Masters 



Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. 



Mr. W, B. Hemsley. A 



bibliography is also published, not including contributions to the Gardeners^ 

 Chronicle, and containing 141 titles. 



Dr. Th. Herzog, of Freiburg, has gone to South America for a stay of eight- 

 een months, having been appointed botanist of a Portuguese commercial society 

 organized to introduce ''plant products" into Europe. His explorations will 

 lie chiefly in Bolivia and the Amazon region, and in connection with his other 

 work he hopes to obtain valuable collections of plants, and especially of mosses. 



Baker 



been 



appointed 



Para, Brazil. All letters and packages should be addressed to him at that point 

 after November i, 1907. His especial function there wall be the further develop- 

 ment of the herbarium and garden at Para, and the botanical exploration o 

 some of the most interesting parts of the Amazon Valley. 



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NEWS 



Mr, W. Eric Brooks has succeeded Mr. V. H. Blackmax in the department 



)otany of the British Museimi, 



Mr. a. W. Hill, lecturer at Cambridore University, has been appointed | 





