
288 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ APRIL 
Tue Botanical Department of Wellesley College has received a gift of 
$25,000 from Mr. H. H. Hunnewell of Wellesley, who has already manifested 
his interest in the college by opening his pinetum and orchid conservatories 
to botanical classes. The money will be used as an endowment for the 
— and the income. will be used to meet the yearly needs. 
. Hircxcock, professor of botany at the Kansas Agricultural 
College, cain Kansas, has been appointed assistant agrostologist in the 
United States Department of Agriculture. r. H. F. Roberts, instructor 
in the Shaw School of Botany, and formerly a graduate student at The Uni- 
versity of Chicago, has been appointed Professor Hitchcock’s successor. 
THE DEPARTMENT of botany of Marine Biological Laboratory has issued 
its announcement for the season of Igo1 (to be obtained from Dr. Bradley M. 
Davis, University of Chicago). A course in cryptogamic botany is offered 
by Drs. Davis and Moore; phanerogamic botany by Dr. Shaw; plant physi- 
ology by Dr. True; and plant cytology by Dr. Davis and Mr. Lawson. An 
attractive course of open lectures will also be given. 
IT 1s proposed to establish a quarterly journal of biological statistics 
under the name Biometrika, which may serve as a means not only of collecting 
under one title biological data of a kind not systematically collected or pub- 
lished in any other periodical, but also of spreading a knowledge of such 
Statistical theory as’ may be requisite for their scientific treatment. The 
movement is in charge of Professor Karl Pearson, of University College, Lon- 
don, to whom tenders of support should be sent. 
THe Act of Congress, making appropriations for the United States 
Department of Agriculture for the year beginning July 1, 1991, contains 
several important items pertaining to investigations in botanical lines con- 
ducted by several divisions in that department. The Divisions of Vegetable 
Physiology and Pathology, Botany, Pomology, Agrostology, and Gardens and 
Grounds are grouped into a bureau to be known as the Bureau of Plant Indus- 
try. The divisions will retain their individual organizations as heretofore and 
will continue to work along lines similar to those which they have already 
developed. The total appropriation for the Bureau of Plant Industry is 
$204,680. The Division of Forestry is also made a bureau for which there is 
appropriated $185,440. 


