NEWS. 
JOSEPH Y. BERGEN, the author of well-known text-books on botany, has 
resigned his position in the English High School of Boston, With his family, 
he sailed on September 3 for Naples, Italy, where for the future he will make 
his home.— Science. 
Dr. Epwin MEAD WILCcox has resigned his position at the Oklahoma 
Agricultural College and Experiment Station to accept the chair of biology 
in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn. He entered upon his new 
duties the first of October 
Mr. J. B. DANDENO, assistant in the Botanical Museum and in botany at 
Harvard University, has been appointed a teacher of botany in the St. Louis 
Normal and High School. Dr. N. L. T. NELSON, formerly a fellow of the 
University of Chicago, has also been appointed to a similar position in the 
Same institution. 
Dr. J. N. Rose returned from his third Mexican journey about Sep- 
tember 10, having been absent ten weeks. He has brought back a collection 
containing more than 1,100 numbers, made chiefly in the states of Mexico, 
Hidalgo, Vera Cruz, and Pueblo, although work was also done in Jalisco and 
Morelos. Considerable collecting was done in the high mountains, especially 
about Pachucha and on Orizaba and Popocatepetl. Two trips were made to 
the latter mountain, and a very full set of its plants obtained, with careful 
aneroid records of all the higher species. The collection is especially rich in 
Oxalis, a genus which reaches a high development in Mexico. 
A VERY SUCCESSFUL GATHERING of botanists was held in Geneva, 
Switzerland, on August 6, 7, and 8, when a program, that had been pre- 
viously distributed, was closely carried out. About sixty members were in 
attendance, a surprisingly large number considering that no papers were 
read, and only a single topic was brought forward for discussion beside the 
details of organization, 
Informal business and social matters occupied the first day. On the sec- 
ond day the congress formally opened in the botanical rooms of the Univer- 
sity of Geneva, with Dr, Casimir de Candolle as honorary president, Professor 
R. Chodat as active president, and Dr. J. P. Lotsy as secretary. As 
announced in the preliminary circular, the question of establishing an inter- 
national botanical journal, in which reviews of publications shall clearly indi- 
Cate the merit of the work set forth, was taken up and warmly discussed in 
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