

NEWS. 
Mr. B. E. FERNow, Director of the New York State School of Forestry, 
Cornell University, will give a course of lectures on forestry at The Univer- 
sity of Chicago during the summer quarter. 
Dr. Roscor Pounp, whose studies on the phytogeography of Nebraska 
have made him well known as a botanist, has been appointed a member of 
the new Supreme Court Commission, which is to assist the Supreme Court of 
Nebraska to clear up its docket. The work of the court is far in arrears, and 
the commissioners are de facto justices. Dr, Pound is winning laurels in his 
vocation as well as in his avocation. 
Mr. Epwarp F., BIGELow, the editor of the Nature and Science depart- 
ment of St. Wicholas, has had prepared compressed tablets after Sachs’ for- 
mula for making nutrient solution. Two of the tablets make a pint of the 
solution of usual strength. Two forms are made, those with and without 
ferric chlorid. The tablets are exceedingly convenient. Doubtless they can 
be purchased through Mr. Bigelow. 
THE DEATH of J. G. Agardh on January 17, in his 88th year, removed a 
notable student of marine algae. His first paper on marine algae was pub- 
lished in 1836, and his last paper has just come to the writer’s desk, not all 
the proof of which did the author live toread. His greatest work is the Species 
Genera et Ordines A lgarum, and to this his last paper was a supplement. A 
brief résumé of his work appears in the Journal of Botany for April. His 
great collection, full of types, passes under the immediate contro] of the 
University of Lund 
THE following circular letter has been sent to many botanists in this 
country. As the committee find it difficult to ascertain the addresses of 
American botanists they desire that all botanists who may see this notice send 
their application for membership in the proposed association to DR. ; 
Lotsy, Wageningen, Holland, by postal card, even though they may not 
receive a copy of the circular: 
The undersigned, padiain that a better organization of the botanists of the dif- 
ferent countries ptalie ribute in a most desirable manner to our mutual aim, viz., 
the progress of bo tany, te ave the honor to invite you to become a member of a new 
Society to be called the /néernational Botanical Associati 
eneral meeting will take place at Geneva, doelinciiesid, on the 7th of August 
next in the botanical laboratory of the university at 10 A. M 
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