No Wo. 
AT THE recent Denver meeting of the A. A. A. S. Dr. D. T. MacDougal 
was elected general secretary for the ensuing year. 
HE University of Glasgow, at its ninth jubilee, celebrated in June last, 
aes the degree LL.D. upon Professor W. G. Farlow, of Harvard 
University. 
PROFESSOR F. O. Bower of the University of Glasgow is one of three 
representatives appointed to attend the bicentennial celebrations of Yale 
University next October. 
THE University of Chicago at its last Convocation conferred upon Mr. 
A. A. Lawson and Miss Florence May Lyon the degree Ph.D. Miss Lyon 
has been appointed associate in botany and Head of Beecher Hall in the 
University of Chicago 
M. EUGENE AUTRAN has severed his connection with the Boissier herba- 
rium at Geneva, Switzerland, and has been appointed botanist to the botan- 
ical garden of Buenos Ayres. He is also a member of the staff of the 
botanical section of the een: Department of Agriculture. 
THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION was adopted by section G of the A. A. 
A. S. at the recent Denver meetin ng: 
Resolved: That it is the sense of this section that it would be advisable to estab- 
offer most valuable opportunities for the prosecution of investigations in nearly all 
branches of botanical science, and would do much to supplement the facilities already 
offered by American institutions. Extended economic experiments in the tropics 
must rest more or less directly upon purely botanical research, and the establishment 
of such a laboratory would do much to strengthen the efficiency of the  sveagaege 
Station. This resolution is not to be taken to mean that the research station should 
be placed in the same building or buildings with the oe station, but should 
be located at the point most favorable for the work in questio 
Dr. CHARLES Monr, the venerable botanist, for many years a resident 
of Mobile, Alabama, died at his home at Asheville, N. C.,on July 17. Dr. 
Mohr was for some years a special agent of the Forestry Division of the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture, for which he prepa ared a monograph on 
The timber pines of the southern United States, published in 1896. His most 
recent work is Plant life of Alabama, the result of exploration and study of 
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