NEWS. 
Dr. G. T. Moore, of Dartmouth College, has been appointed phycologist 
in the Department of Agriculture. 
Dr. J. C. ARTHUR sailed July 6 and will spend July and August in 
Europe with his bride. He will attend the botanical conference at Geneva 
in August. ; 
Dr. J. B. OVERTON, who received his doctorate in June from the Uni- 
versity of Chicago, has been appointed professor cf botany in IIlinois College, 
at Jacksonville. 
Mr. A. A. Lawson, fellow in botany at the University of Chicago during 
the past year, has been appointed assistant in botany in Leland Stanford 
Junior University. 
HENRI PHILIBERT, honorary professor in the Faculty of Letters, dis- 
tinguished for his bryological studies, died at Aix on the fourteenth of May, 
in his seventy-ninth year. 
PROFESSOR G. J. PEIRCE, of Leland Stanford Junior University, takes 
charge of the botanical work during the summer at the Hopkins Seaside 
Laboratory near Pacific Grove, California. 
WE LEARN from Science that a memorial tablet of the late Thomas Con- 
rad Porter, long professor of botany in Lafayette College, was unveiled in 
connection with the recent commencement exercises 
ProFressor C, E. Bessey, after attending the meeting of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver, will go to the Pike’s 
peak region to join the University of Nebraska camp for a month, to study 
the mountain flora. 
THE REGENTS of West Virginia University have abolished the professor- 
ship of botany in that institution without notice to the present incumbent, 
Dr. E. B, Copeland. Dr. Copeland will spend the summer at the Cold Spring 
Biological Laboratory. 
Mr. H. N. WHITFORD, assistant in botany in the University of Chicago, 
has been appointed a collaborator of the Bureau of Forestry for the study of 
the ecology of the forest. He is to carry on work this summer in the neigh- 
borhood of Flat Head lake, Montana. 
. C. Cowes, of the University of Chicago, will conduct a field 
party selsinns August in northwestern Montana. The party will number about 
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