NEWS 
Dr. F. Cavara has been appointed director of the Botanical Garden at 
Naples. 
Dr. Lupwic Diets, University of Berlin, is delivering a series of lectures at 
the University of Marburg. 
Dr. B. Lonco, lately of the University of Rome, has been appointed pro- 
fessor of botany at the University of Siena 
Dr. ARTHUR HoLtick has been appointed by the mayor a member of the 
Board of Education of Greater New York. 
AMERICAN AssocrATION for the Advancement of Science will meet at 
the University of Chicago during the holiday week of 1907. 
Dr. J. B. Farmer has been appointed president of the section of botany of the 
British Association, which holds its next meeting at Leicester. 
Dr. D. H. Scorr has resigned his position as honorary keeper of the Jodrell 
Laboratory at Kew, a position which he has held since 1892 
Proressor C. E. Bessry, University of Nebraska, has been elected vice-presi- 
dent of Section G of the American Association for the coming year. 
Miss Ciara E. Cummins, professor of cryptogamic botany in Wellesley 
College, died on December 28. She had served Wellesley College since 1878. 
A. G. TANSLEY, assistant professsor of botany, University College, London, 
and editor of the New eaay has been appointed lecturer in botany to 
succeed Professor A. C. Sew 
Miss Littan M. ee of the University of Minnesota, is arranging 
a “‘science and recreation camp” on the shore of Vermilion Lake, Minnesota, to 
begin about the middle of July. Work and play are offered ad libitum. 
ABOUT HALF THE COLLECTIONS have been transferred from the old building 
in Berlin to the new Museum building of the Royal Botanic Garden at Dahlem. 
It is expected that the transfer will be complete by spring and the building then 
fully occupied. 
est HERBARIUM of the late Wrtt1aM Mirren of England, one of the most 
important collections for American bryology, has been purchased by the New 
York ook Garden. We congratulate the director upon his enterprise 
and success in securing this valuable collection. 
Ar THe New York meeting of the Botanical Society of America the following 
officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, GEorGE F, ATKINSON, Cor- 
nell University; Vice-president, N. L. Brrrron, New York Botanical Garden; 
Secretary, D. S. Jounson, Johns Hopkins University; Treasurer, ARTHUR 
Houck, Columbia University. 
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