NEWS 
Proressor GEorG Kies, of Halle, has been called to the University of 
Heidelberg to succeed the late Professor PFITZER. 
Dr. Witt1AmM TRELEASE, Missouri Botanical Garden, is spending February 
and March in a botanical expedition in the West Indies 
THE LICHEN COLLECTION of H. E. Hasse, of California, consisting of about 
3000 species and many duplicates, has been presented to the New York Garden 
by Mr. Joun I. Kane. 
Proressor RoLaND THAXTER, Harvard University, has been selected as 
American editor of the Annals of Botany, to succeed Professor W. G. FARLOW, 
who has withdrawn from the position. 
B. E. FeRNnow, formerly director of the New York State College of Forestry 
at Cornell University, has been appointed to organize a department of forestry in 
the State College of Pennsylvania, which will be an undergraduate forestry school. 
MUHLENBERGIA, with A. A. HELLER as editor and publisher, begins its third 
volume as a journal “open to the botanical public.” It is to be restricted to the 
taxonomy of seed-plants. The subscription ee is $1.00 a year, and the address 
of the editor is Box 58, Los Gatos, Californi 
apes THE January number the pane under the editorship of the pub- 
ANNIE MorriLy SMITH, enters upon its tenth volume, which opens 
with : a sketch and portrait of the late Witram MitTrEN. The past volumes are 
replete with notes on the bryophytes of the United States. 
_ THE OFFICERS of the American Society of Naturalists for the present year are 
President, J. P. McMurricu, University of Michigan; Vice-President, D. P 
NHALLOW, McGill University; Treasurer, HERMANN VON SCHRENK, Missouri 
Botanical Garden; Secretary, E. L. THORNDIKE, Columbia University. 
ADVANCE PRooFs of the Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden for 1906 
show a very vigorous development in every department. The gardening for the 
benefit of the public was responded to by 117,553 Visitors, a figure not reached 
heretofore except during the year of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. To the 
herbarium there were added 35,422 sheets of specimens, bringing the total collection 
to 559,267 sheets, 46,466 of which are thallophytes. One of the notable collec- 
tions added during the year was that of the late J. REVERCHON, especially rich | 
in Texan plants. The library is one of the very few great botanical libraries of 
America, the accessions of 1906 bringing the enumeration of books and pam- 
phlets to 54,895, controlled by 571,253 index cards. During the latter part of the 
year J. W. BLANKINSHIP was added to the herbarium staff. 
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