NEWS 
Dr. JoHN W. HarsHBuRGER has been promoted to be assistant professor of 
botany at the University of Pennsylvania. 
INFORMATION has come from Kew that in its future publications the nomen- 
clature will be in accord with the rules adopted by the Vienna Congress. 
Dr. J. C. ARTHUR, Purdue University, gave an illustrated lecture March 30 
in the Field Museum amiga ti lecture course, his subject being ‘“‘A super- 
posed vegetation—the plant 
Dr. Epwin B. CopELAND yoni from Manila about the middle of March 
and has taken up research work in plant physiology at the Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station of the University of West Virginia, at Morgantown. 
THE HOUSE of Pau Parey in Berlin has recently issued five new plates of 
the well-known series by Dr. L. Kny. The new plates are the first of a second 
hundred, which are to be increased in size from 67 X82°™ to 106X150. They 
illustrate Drosera, Mimosa, Spirogyra, Cuscuta, and Berberis. 
Orro Kuntze died suddenly at San Remo on January 28, at the age of 64. 
His earliest work as a taxonomist appeared in 1867; but since the appearance of 
his Revisio Generum (1891-98) he has been known chiefly for his writings on 
nomenclature. The Journal of Botany justly says: “It is in connection with 
the revision of nomenclature that his name will chiefly be remembered, and it is 
to be regretted that the intolerance of his views and the intemperance of the 
language in which they were stated led to a somewhat insufficient appreciation of 
his labor and research.” 
THE University oF Minnesota has recently completed, at a cost of $10,000, 
a range of plant houses covering about 370 square meters, and consisting of five 
connected houses and a work room (5 7.5™) with basement for heating appa- 
ratus. There is a xerophyte house (7.5%7.5™), palm house (8.5 X10X5.5™ 
high), aquatic house (5.5 10™), lily house (5.5 X10™), and a temperate house. 
An additional sum of $7000 has been asked to build a laboratory greenhouse 
connected with the others and to improve the grounds as a botanic garden. 
Unfortunately the plant houses and grounds are widely separated from the 
laboratories. 
AT THE thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 
Arts, and Letters held at Madison, Wisconsin, February 7 and 8, 1907, the fol- 
lowing botanical papers were presented: E. W. Oxive: Nuclear migrations and 
cell fusions in the rusts; A. H. CuristMan: The morphology of the spore forms 
of the rusts; R. A. Harper: Heredity in the lower fungi; J. B. OVERTON: 
Diakinesis in Thalictrum; W. G. Marquette: Concerning the organization of 
the cell in Marsilia; B. F. Lurman: Cell and nuclear fusions in the promycelial 
cells of certain smuts; C. E. ALLEN: The distribution of grandparental char- 
acters in Pisum. 
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