NEWS 
FREDERIC E. CLEMENTS, University of Nebraska, has been elected professor 
of botany, in charge of the department, in the University of Minnesota, as suc- 
cessor to Professor Conway MAcMILLAn. 
Dr. AND Mrs. N. L. Brirron, N. Y. Botanical Garden, and Dr. C. F. MILts- 
PAUGH, Field Museum of Natural History, have returned from a botanical survey 
of the outer islands of the- Bahamian archipelago. 
F. R. Kyeiman, professor of botany in the University of Upsala, died April 
22. On November 4, 1906, a memorial volume (Botaniska Studier) was issued 
by his students, commemorating his 60th birthday. 
Dr. A. F. BLaKEsLEE, Harvard University, has been elected professor of 
botany in the Connecticut Agricultural College, at Storrs. He will begin his 
duties by acting as the director of the summer school of 1907. 
Ruopora (9:29-55. 1907) has published the international rules for botanical 
nomenclature adopted by the Vienna Congress, and has appended a list of New 
England genera whose names are to be retained notwithstanding technical lack 
of priority. s 
Tue New York ACADEMY oF SCIENCES observed the 200th anniversary of 
the birth of Linnaeus by a very full program of exhibits and addresses. The 
zoologists and botanists united in commemorating the occasion, and a bronze 
tablet was unveiled at the bridge over Bronx River in Pelham Parkway, a position 
gad between the Botanical Garden and the Zoological Park. 
HE ANNUAL REPORT of the director of the Field Museum of Natural History 
a shows that during 1906 there were added to the herbarium 11,493 
sheets, and that the total number of sheets in the organized herbarium on Novem- 
ber 25, 1906, was 110,712. The organization of this herbarium under Dr. 
Cuar es F. Mirtspaucs is one of the most effective and complete in existence 
and its rapid growth indicates that it is to become one of the great herbaria. 
Tue HARPSWELL Laporatory on the coast of Maine has its eighth session 
from June 17 to September 9, 1907. It is situated in South Harpswell near the 
extremity of a narrow peninsula nearly ten miles in length, extending out into 
Casco Bay. This bay has a very rich fauna and flora and is not excelled as a 
collecting-ground by any point between Eastport and North Carolina. The 
woods are mostly evergreens and are inhabited by a diversified plant and animal 
population. The director, to whom all communications should be sent, is Pro- 
fessor H. V. NEAL, Knox sete Galesburg, Him. 
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