NEWS. 
Dr. Wm. BENECKE, privat docent in botany in the University of Kiel, 
has been appointed to an associate professorship. 
Dr. B. NEMEC has been appointed Director of the new institute for 
Plant Piidiuny of the Imperial Bohemian University of Prag. 
ACCORDING to Science, the extensive herbarium of the late Dr. T. Bernard 
Brinton has been presented to the Botanical Garden of the University of 
Pennsylvania. 
EpwarD W. BERRY a member of the Torrey Botanical Club has been 
awarded the Walker prize of fifty dollars by the Boston Society of Natural 
History for a memoir on Liriodendron. 
THE TRANSFER of the late Dr. J. G. Agardh’s herbarium of algae to the 
University of Lund is made on the express condition that no specimens be 
loaned. While this will doubtless tend to preserve a valuable collection of 
types, it seriously restricts its usefulness. 
A RECENT NUMBER of Plant World announces that the herbarium of the 
veteran collector, Mr. A. H. Curtiss, containing about 16,000 sheets, was 
destroyed in the recent great fire at Jacksonville, Florida. His early collec- 
tions for this year’s distribution were saved. 
A SUMMER SCHOOL for nature study is to be held at the Rhode Island 
College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Kingston, from July 5th to 2oth. 
A course on trees and garden plants will be given by Professor Fred W. 
Card and Mr. George E. Adams; on flowering plants by Professors W. W. 
Bailey and H. L. Merrow; on seaweeds and fungi by Dr. A. B. Seymour. 
Ir IS WITH great regret that the BOTANICAL GAZETTE records the 
death of Professor Thomas Conrad Porter of Easton, Pa. He died April 27, 
Ig0I, at the age of seventy-nine. Since 1866 he has been identified with 
Lafayette College, and has long been one of the best known American tax- 
onomists. A biographical sketch will be published in an early number of 
the GAZETTE. 
THE BIOLOGICAL station of the University of Montana, established in 
1899 on Flathead lake, will be opened this year on July 22. The University 
supplies books, chemicals, glassware and microscopes for use free; students 
are charged only for material used and breakage. The botanical work will 
be in charge of Dr. D. T. MacDougal and Mr, R. S. Williams, of the New 
York Botanical Garden. 
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