NEWS. 
PROFESSOR MAXIME CoRNU, of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, died on 
April 3, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. 
Dr. DuncaN S. JOHNSON, associate in botany at Johns Hopkins Univer- 
sity, has been promoted to an associate professorship. 
Dr. ALEXANDER P, ANDERSON has been appointed assistant in botany 
in Columbia University to succeed Dr. M. A. Howe. Dr. Anderson will also 
carry on physiological studies at the New York Botanical Garden. 
Mr. GeorGE P. CLINTON, of the botanical department of the Univer- 
sity of Illinois, spent last year at Harvard University on leave of absence. 
His leave has been extended for another year. He is at work upon the 
Ustilagineae. 
Dr. MARSHALL A. Howe has been appointed assistant in the New 
York Botanical Garden and will devote himself especially to the study of 
the red algae. He is spending the summer in the eastern provinces of Nova 
Scotia, Cape Breton, and Newfoundland. 
FRoM Science we learn that Dr. H. W. Harkness, well known as a 
botanist of the Pacific coast, and especially for his recent studies on the 
Tuberaceae, died in San Francisco on May 10. His collections become the 
property of the California Academy of Sciences. 
Dr. F. L. Stevens, who has spent the past year in Europe as an hon- 
orary fellow of the University of Chicago, has been appointed instructor 1p 
biology at the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Raleigh, North 
Carolina. He will have entire charge of the newly-established department. 
Dr. L. M. UNDERWooD spent the months of June and July in botanical 
exploration in Porto Rico in connection with a party from the Department - 
Agriculture at Washington, consisting of O. F. Cook, special agent for trop!- 
cal agriculture, Guy N. Collins, plant photographer, and Robert F. Griggs, 
botanical collector. 
Mr. H. HASSELBRING, a graduate of Cornell University and later assist- 
ant in botany at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, has 
been appointed assistant in botany in the Agricultural Experiment Station of 
the University of Illinois. Mr. Hasselbring will devote his attention chiefly 
to plant pathology. : 
CHARLES F. Hotrasg, Ph.D., formerly an assistant in the botanical labo- 
ratory of the University of Illinois, has just returned from three years study 
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