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NEWS. 
Dr. ROLAND THAXTER has been promoted to a professorship of crypto- 
gamic botany at Harvard University.— Science. 
WE REGRET to announce the death of the young English phycologist 
William West, who died in India from cholera, at the age of twenty-six years. 
AN EXCELLENT biographical sketch and portrait of the late Dr. Charles 
Mohr appear in the September number of Plant World. It is written by 
Professor S. M. Tracy. 
Dr. A. F. W. Scuimper, professor of botany in the University of Basle, 
and widely known for his monumental Pflanzengeographie, died on Septem- 
ber 9, in his forty-sixth year. 
IN THE OCTOBER number of the Journal of Applied Microscopy there is 
an interesting illustrated account of the botanical laboratory and gardens of 
the Tokyo Imperial University, by Kiichi Miyake. 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of Professor T. C. Porter, with an excellent 
artotype portrait, was published in the July number of the Budletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club, having been prepared by Dr. N. L. Britton. 
Miss S. M. HALLOWELL, professor of botany at Wellesley College, has 
been given leave of absence for the year, and the work of the department will 
be under Miss Clara E. Cummings, assistant professor of botany.— Science. 
WE HAVE LEARNED that the herbarium of Theodor von Heldreich, pro- 
fessor of botany and director of the Botanic Gardens, Athens, is for sale. It 
contains approximately 20,000 species, and richly represents the floras of 
reece, Asia Minor, and Egypt. It contains also hundreds of types and 
authentic specimens of new species described by Heldreich in the works of 
Issier, 
PROFESSOR ALEx. P. ANDERSON, formerly in charge of plant physiology 
in the University of Minnesota, has been appointed Curator of the herbarium 
of Columbia University, to fill the position made vacant by the appointment 
of Dr. Howe to the Garden staff. Professor FRANK S. EARLE, formerly of 
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, has been appointed assistant curator in 
charge of the collection of fungi at the New York Botanical Garden. 
AN ACCcouNT of the opening of the new botanical department at Glasgow 
University appears in the Annals of Botany for September last. It was a 
part of the celebrations on the ninth jubilee of the university, and the open- 
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