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NEWS. 



Professor C. S. Sargent has been elected a foreign member of the 

 Linnean Society of London. 



Mr. C. G. Pringle, the veteran collector, has been appointed keeper of 

 the herbarium of the University of Vermont. 



Professor M. Treub will be absent from Buitenzorg from May, 1902, to 

 March, 1903, his address being Amsterdam. 



Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, director of the Kew Gardens, has been 



I appointed to the post of " Botanical Adviser" to the colonial Secretary of 



State. 



Dr. William J. Gies, adjunct professor of physiological chemistry in 

 Columbia University, has been appointed consulting chemist to the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. E. C. Jeffrey, Instructor in botany in the University of Toronto, 

 has accepted a call to Harvard University, bearing the official title Assistant 

 Professor of Vegetable Histology and General Morphology. 



Professor D. H. Scott has been elected Botanical Secretary of the 

 Lmnean Society to succeed Mr. B. D. Jackson, who has served in that 



capacity since 1880, and who now becomes General Secretary. 



Dr. F. L. Stevens, instructor in charge of the department of biology of 

 the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, has been pro- 

 moted to the full professorship, and also appointed consulting biologist to the 

 Experiment Station. 



Miss Laetitia M. Snow has been awarded the fellowship given by the 

 Baltimore Association for the advancement of University Education of 

 Women. She will use the fellowship in continuing her botanical studies at 

 the University of Chicago. 



A VERY pretentious *'art portfolio," entitled "La grande flora de 

 Colorado de Montana y Llanos," has been published by Frank S. Thayer, of 

 Denver, Colorado. The only interest to botanists is that the series consists 

 of illustrations, reproduced from water colors, of twelve " native wild flowers." 

 The descriptions were prepared by Mrs. S. B. Walker, the well-known col- 

 lector and cultivator of Colorado flowers. Her work has been exceptionally 

 well done, excepting in so far as she has been handicapped by the require- 

 nients of publication and lack of competent proofreading. 



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