NEWS 
Dr. Epwarp C. Jerrrey, Harvard University, has been promoted to a full 
professorship of plant morphology. 
Dr. K. M. Wiecann, Cornell University, has been appointed associate 
professor of botany in Wellesley College. 
Proressor FRANCIS E. Lioyn, of the Desert Laboratory, is announced for a 
course in botany during next July at the summer school of Harvard University. 
Tae Macurrtan Company has announced the publication of a “Practical 
text-book of plant pathology” by D. T. MacDoveat, F. S. Earze, and H. H. 
RICHARDS. 
Dr. K. Mrvaxg, Doshisha College, Japan, has been selected to fill the posi- 
tion of Professor IKENo at the University of Tokyo during the two years’ absence 
of the latter. 
AKE LABORATORY of the Ohio State University is located on Cedar 
Point, near Sandusky, and will hold the session of 1907 from June 24 to August 2. 
Matcotm E. Stickney, Denison University, will be in charge of the botany. 
Dr. Met. T. Coox has been appointed plant pathologist to the Delaware 
Agricultural Experiment Station, under the recent Adams Act. He is also to act 
as professor of botany in Delaware College. His future address will be Newark, 
Del. 
Dr. Jacos ScHNECK, Mount Carmel, Ill., died December 18, 1906. Dr. 
Schneck was an old and well-known student of the flora of his region, and his 
name is a very familiar one to systematists. A number of his contributions 
appear in the earlier volumes of the BoTANICAL GAZETTE. 
THE SEVENTH ANNUAL SEASON of the Minnesota Seaside Station, on the 
Straits of Fuca, Vancouver Island, is announced for the six weeks beginning 
about July 6. Full information may be obtained from Assistant Professor JoSE- 
PHINE E. TILDEN, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. 
Proressor W. A. KELLERMAN, Ohio State University, has returned from an 
absence of three months in Guatemala, where he has been collecting parasitic 
fungi. He has planned a “Peripatetic School of Tropical Botany” for a limited 
number of students, the first session to begin December 20, 1907. 
Sm Tuomas Hansury, the owner of the well-known Botanical Garden of 
La Mortola, Ventimiglia, Italy, died March 9, after an illness of a few weeks. 
He would have completed his seventy-fifth year on June 21. His death will be 
deeply mourned by many botanists who have visited his beautiful garden, and 
who have known him personally. 
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