NEWS 
Dr. E. Gre, curator of the Botanical Museum, has been appointed to a 
professorship in the University of Berlin. 
Proressor W. A. KELLERMAN, Ohio State University, will soon make a third 
collecting trip to Guatemala for the purpose of collecting parasitic fungi. 
ALEXANDER W. Evans, Yale University, has been promoted from an assistant 
professorship to the Eaton professorship of botany in the Sheffield Scientific 
School. 
W woRK on the botany of California is announced by C. R. Orcutt 
under the title ‘California Plants.” It is to be issued in parts, each containing 
descriptions of about 100 species. 
. T. Cook, recently in charge of the Department of Plant Pathology of 
the Central Agricultural Experiment Station of Cuba, will spend the next few 
months at the New York Botanical Garden. 
Dr. Ernest Prirzer, who has been professor of botany and director of the 
Botanic Garden in the University of Heideiberg since 1872, died on December 3, 
at the age of sixty-one. His researches lay in the field of anatomy and physiology. 
Dr. W. B. MacCatvm, assistant in plant physiology in the University of 
Chicago, has been appointed professor of plant physiology in the University of 
Arizona at Tucson. _He entered upon his new duties on January 1, which involve 
no teaching, but solely research. The University of Arizona in establishing @ 
research position in this line has shown the way to many older institutions. 
OWING to the amount of material which has been received for publication, the 
Philippine Journal of Science will be issued in three sections, each separately 
paged and indexed: (a) General Science, (b) Medical Sciences, (c) Botany. The 
section on botany will include all botanical work issued from the Bureau. It 
will not be issued at regular monthly intervals, but as fast as material is available: 
yet each year’s subscription ($2) will cover a sufficient amount of material to 
constitute a fair-sized volume. 
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