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NEWS. 



Professors Hugo de Vries and Julius Wiesner have been made mem- 

 bers of the Accademia dei Lincei. 



Dr. N. L. Britton was in England during August and September com- 

 pleting his investigations of American Carices and Crassulaceae. 



J. B. Dandeno, formerly instructor in botany at the St. Louis Normal 

 School, has been appointed assistant in botany at the Michigan Agricultural 

 College. 



Coulter and Rose's Monograph of the North American Umbelliferae 

 has been reprinted by the Department of Agriculture, and was issued Sep- 

 tember 22, 1902. 



Among the fall announcements of Henry Holt & Company is Plant 

 Physiology by George J. Pierce ; and among those of D. C. Heath & Com- 

 pany is An introduction to Botany by W. C. Stevens. 



There was an attendance of forty-four in botany at Woods Hole this 

 summer, including the staflf and investigators. Among the latter were Pro- 

 fessor Duggar, Drs. Miyake and Overton, and Mr. George D. Fuller. 



L. Cockayne, whose fine work on the vegetation of Chatham island, Xew 

 Zealand, will soon be reviewed in this journal, has been granted a passage in 

 the government steamer to the Antarctic islands. He plans to sail during 

 December and will carry on ecological and floristic studies. 



The Botanical Society of America will hold its ninth annual meet- 

 ing at Washington, D. C, December 29, igo2. to January 3, IQ03, under the 

 presidency of Dr. B. T. Galloway. The address of the past president, J. C. 

 Arthur, and a program of scientific papers will be given at the sessions. 



A biographical sketch of the late Marc Micheli, prepared by C. de 

 Candolle, and accompanied by a portrait and bibliography, is published in 

 Archiv, Set, Phys. et Nat. Geneva of July, 1902. The bibliography includes 

 thirty-four botanical titles. Micheli was born October 5, 1844. and died June 

 29, 1902. 



The Bureau of Forestry has established a dendro-chemical labora- 



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tory in cooperation with the Bureau of Chemistry, to study the chemistry of 

 forest products. The laboratory is in charge of William H, Krug, and its 

 first work has been a study of the chemical composition of the wood and bark 

 of various oaks (chestnut, white, red, and black) and the western hemlock. 



Dr. Alex. P. Anderson has resigned his position of curator of the 

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