
NEWS. 
THe Fern Bulletin for January contains an excellent portrait of Professor 
L. M. Underwood. 
WE REGRET to learn of the death of Dr. S. J. Korshinsky, of St. Peters- 
burg, at the age of 40. He had done some excellent work, especially in 
problems concerned with the vegetation of the steppes. 
Dr. M. RacrgorskI, formerly professor of botany at the University of 
Cracow, and lately of Buitenzorg, has been appointed professor of botany and 
director of the botanical garden in the Dublany Agricultural Academy at 
Lemberg. 
ONE GARDEN scholarship is to be awarded by Director Wm. Trelease, of 
the Missouri Botanical Garden, before April 1 next. Applications must be 
in his hands before March 1, and examinations will be held at the garden 
on March 5. 
THE FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES has awarded the Desmaziéres prize 
to Abbé Hue for his ‘‘ Mémoire sur une Classification des lichens fondée sur 
leur anatomie,” and the Montaigne prize to M. J. Heribaud for his ‘Les 
Muscinées d’Auvergne.”’ 
THE VIENNA Academy of Sciences intends to send an expedition in 
Ig0I to study the flora of Brazil. Professor Dr. Richard von Wettstein, 
director of the botanical garden of the University, and Dr. Victor Schiffner 
of Prague, will accompany the party. 
THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT of the British Museum has purchased the 
Bescherelle herbarium of mosses and liverworts, the collection containing 
14,800 specimens of the former, and 3500 of ahe latter. The herbarium is 
very rich in types and authentic specimens. 
THROUGH the liberality of T. M. Baird, Jr., Esq., of Victoria, B. Cae 
tract of land on the coast of Vancouver island, opposite Cape Flattery, has 
been presented for a seaside botanical station of the University of Minnesota. 
The erection of a group of log buildings has been begun and a party of thirty 
or more botanists has been organized to open the work of the station next 
June. 
AT A MEETING of the Botanical Section of the Philadelphia Academy of 
Natural Sciences, held December to, 1900, the following officers were elected 
for the ensuing year: Director, THOMAS MEEHAN; Vice director, GEORGE 
M. BERINGER; Treasurer and Conservator, STEWARDSON BRowNn; Recorder, 
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