NEWS. 
Dr. W. R. SHAw has been appointed botanist of the Oklahoma Experi- 
ment Station. 
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, Charles E, Allen has been appointed 
instructor in botany, and Mrs. George J. Ruger and H. A. Winkenwerder 
assistants in botany. 
HouGuton, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY announce that Sargent’s Sz/va of 
North America is to be supplemented by two additional volumes, containing 
115 plates. The volumes will be published in 1902. 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of Dr. Charles Mohr, prepared by Eugene i 
Smith, and accompanied by an excellent portrait, is published in the Novem- 
ber number of the Budletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 
IN THE November number of the /ournad of the N. Y. Botanical Garden 
the report of Dr. N. L. Britton on his recent trip to the West Indies is pub- 
lished, and also the report of Professor L. M. Underwood on a trip to Porto 
Rico, 
AN EXCELLENT PORTRAIT of M. Maxime Cornu is published in Bud. Soc. 
Bot. de France of September last, in connection with an account of his obse- 
quies. The address at the tomb was given in behalf cf the society by M. 
Ed, Bureau. 
HERMAN B. DorNneER has been appointed assistant in botany in the 
Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station at Purdue University, vce Wm. 
Stuart, who has been transferred to the staff of the Horticultural department 
of the same station. 
Dr. HANS SOLEREDER, of Munich, has been appointed professor of botany 
and director of the Botanical Institute at the University at Erlangen. Dr. 
V. Schiffner, associate professor of systematic botany in the German Univer- 
sity at Prague, has been called to a similar position in the University of 
Munich.— Science. 
R. H. DENNISTON and H. G. Timberlake spent about two weeks in Sep- 
tember collecting for the State University in the lake region of Vilas county, 
Wisconsin. Special attention was given to the lower cryptogams, of which 
about 450 species were collected. These included about 350 fungi and 
lichens, 50 algae, and 50 mosses. 
Dr. THomAsS MEEHAN, the well-known horticulturist and botanist, died 
at his home in Germantown, Philadelphia, on November 1g, at the age 
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