NEWS. 



Dr. H, O. Juel has been promoted from a docentship to a professor- 

 ship in the University of Upsala. 



The Lamarck herbarium has been secured by the French government 

 * and deposited at the Jardin des Plantes. 



M. A. Howe, of the New York Botanical Garden, is en^ae^ed in a sur- 



vey of the algal flora of the Florida Keys. 



Professor Wladislaw Rothert, of Charkow. has been elected pro- 

 fessor of botany in the University of Odessa. — Science. 



Dr. Adrien Lemaire, well known for his works on diatoms, on the 

 anatomy of roots, etc., died at Nancy, October 23, 1902. 



Dr. J. B. DeToni has been appointed Professor of Botany and Director 

 of the Botanic Gardens at the University of Modena, to succeed the late 

 Professor Antonio Mori. 



F. S. Earle, of the New York Botanical Garden, is in Jamaica, in com- 

 pany with William Fawcett, investigating the diseases of logwood, banana, 

 cocoanut, ginger, and pineapple. 



The second volume of Coulter and Chamberlain's Morphology oj 



Spermatophytes, entitled Morphology of Angiosperms, is in the hands of the 

 publishers, D. Appleton and Company. 



Pearson's collections of Hepaticae have been secured by the Na- 

 tional Herbarium at the British Museum. It contains about 9,000 speci- 

 n^ens, among which are many types and the material used in preparing 

 several well-known papers. 



Ernst A. Bessey, explorer of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has 

 returned from his journey into Turkestan, and has entered the University of 

 Halle for further botanical study. The easternmost point reached by him 

 was Andijan, in the province of Ferghana, — Science. 



The Cambridge University Press will shortly publish the first volume, 

 containing the introduction, the gymnosperms, and the monocotyledons, of a 

 new introduction to systematic botany by Dr. Rendle. The work, which is 

 entitled "A systematic account of the seed-plants,'* is to be in two volumes 

 and will be fully illustrated.— Jour. Bot. 



The first number of a ntv^ mycological journal, entitled *• Annales 

 Mycologici'* and edited by Professor H. Sydow of Berlin, will appear in 

 January 1903. The closing statement of the announcement is as follows: 

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