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Dr. Richard Wettstein, Vienna, has been elected president of the "Asso- 

 ciation of German Men of Science and Physicians/' to meet next year at Cologne, 



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Dr. E2RA Brainerd, well known among botanists for his work on the flora 

 of Vermont, has resigned the presidency of Middlebury College, an institution 

 which he has served for 43 years. 



The Bryologist for November offers the usual interesting fascicle of notes' 

 on mosses, liverworts, and lichens. The brief contributions of many obsen^ers 

 and students of these plants are of real sen'ice. 



. Proeessor J. Behrens has been called to the directorship of the biological 

 Experiment Station at Berlln-Dahlem (the seat also of the Imperial Botanic 



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Garden), as successor to the late Professor R. Aderhold, 



J. Arthur Harris, Missouri Botanical Garden, has been appointed on the 

 staff of the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, 

 to succeed E. N. Traxseaxt, now at the State Normal School, Charleston, Illinois. 



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Professor Lud\\t:g Josx, of the University of Strassburg, has been called to 

 the State Agricultural College at Bonn-Poppelsdorf and to an assistant professor- 

 ship in the University of Bonn, as successor to Dr, Fritz Noll, who went to 

 Halle. 



In the 



American 



Gray, by Professor C. R. Barnes. The frontispiece of the number is a portrait 



of Dr. Gray. 



Mr. a. H. Curtiss, the well-known collector of plants from the southeastern 

 United States and West Indies, whose sets are widely distributed and highly 

 prized in the herbaria of the world, died at his home in Jacksonville, Florida, 

 September i, at the age of 62 years. 



J. E. KiRKW^ooD, formerly 

 inist to the Mexican-Coi 



Francis 



at Hacienda de Cedros, Mazapil, Zacatecas. It is in this company that 

 E. Lloyd is director of investigation, with the same laboratory address. 



Clark Hall, of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the new building 

 named after Colonel William S. Clark, an enthusiastic botanist and one of the 

 first presidents of the institution, was dedicated on October 2. Addresses were 

 given by Professor D. P. Penhallow, McGill University, on "William Smith 

 Clark: his place as a scientist and his relation to the development of scientific 

 agriculture;" and by Professor John M. Tyxer, Amherst College, on "Reminis- 

 cences of Colonel W. S. Clark." 



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