





NEWS. 
THE Asa Gray Bulletin has been merged into the Plant World. Mr. 
Cornelius A. Shear becomes one of the editorial staff. 
PROFESSOR J, REYNOLDS GREEN’S work on Enzymes has been translated 
into German by Dr. Wilhelm Windisch, and published by Paul Parey, Berlin. 
Mr. SAMUEL M. COULTER, fellow in botany at The University of Chicago, 
has been appointed to an instructorship in the Shaw School of Botany of 
Washington University. ‘ 
PROFESSOR Dr. EDUARD STRASBURGER has been elected a member of 
the French Academy of Sciences, and the order of “ Rote Adler, III Classe, 
mit der Schleife ” has recently been conferred upon him. 
Mr. FRANK S. COLLINS, the phycologist, of Malden, Mass., has recently 
been elected a resident fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
(Boston), and Mr. Cyrus G. Pringle, the veteran collector, of Charlotte, Ver- 
mont, has been elected an associate fellow. 
THE ALSTEAD School of Natural History is held at Alstead Center, N. H., 
for five weeks of the summer. In 1go! it offers instruction in general 
botany by Mr. M. L. Fernald of the Gray Herbarium; and in mycology 
(fleshy fungi) by Mr. Hollis Webster, of Boston. 
Mr. L. C. CorBerrt, horticulturist of the Agricultural College at Morgan- 
town, West Virginia, has accepted a position in the Bureau of Plant Industry 
in the United States Department of Agriculture. His work will include 
investigations in regard to floriculture and gardening. 
THE assistant professorship of botany in the University of Tennessee has 
been made a full professorship, and the present incumbent, Mr. S. M. Bain, 
s been promoted thereto. The department of botany is said to be 
thoroughly equipped and to be making satisfactory progress in every way. 
A HANDSOME silver loving-cup was presented by a number of teachers 
to Mr. Thomas Meehan, the veteran horticulturist and botanist of Philadel- 
phia, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. Mr. Meehan has been a 
member of one of the sectional school boards in Philadelphia for twenty-three 
years. 
R. JARED G. Situ, formerly in charge of the Section of Seed and 
Plant Introduction in the United States Department of Agriculture, has been 
selected to organize the territorial Experiment Station in the Hawaiian 
islands. Mr. Emst A. Bessey succeeds him as “ Assistant in Charge,” the 
Section having been placed under the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
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