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NEWS. 



Fhe bryologist Hugo von Klinggraeff died April i at Paleschken, West 



Prussia. 



Dr. B. Schmid, privatdocent at the University of Tubingen, died 



J April 28. 



Professor Antonio Mori, Director of the Botanic Gardens at Modena, 



died April 6. 



Mr. E. W. D. Holway spent the month of September in the mountains 

 of western Canada collecting fungi. 



Professor Dr. G. Leimbach, of Arnstadt, I'huringia, and publisher of 

 the Deutsch. Bof, Monai^schrift, was missing from his home on June i r. and 

 on June 13 his body was found at the foot of a cliff,- from which he had evi- 

 dently fallen. 



The last report (13th) of the Missouri Botanical Garden shows that 

 the mounted herbarium consists of 364,953 specimens, 23,942 of which are 

 thallophytes. The library contains 36,016 books and pamphlets, and at pres- 

 ent 1,133 serial publications are received. 



Mrs. William Stuart, of Purdue Universit}^ for som^ years assistant 

 in botany to Dr. Arthur, and for the last year associate horticulturist in the 

 Experiment Station of that institution, has been appointed horticulturist in 

 the University of Vermont to succeed Professor Waugh, who goes to the Mas- 

 sachusetts Agricultural College. 



The Uredineae are to receive monographic treatment by P. and H. 

 Sydow of Berlin. Gebriider Borntraeger announce the early appearance of 

 the first part of the work. It is to appear in parts over a period of three or 

 four years, and will eventually form three volumes, each containing about 

 1,000 pages, with a large part of the species illustrated, and all known species 

 included with their synonymy. The price will be about 60 marks per volume 

 to subscribers. 



M. J. C. Willis, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, 

 Ceylon, proposes to be absent from Peradeniya until March 1903, on a tour 

 through England, the United States, Japan, etc., for the study of agricul- 

 tural and botanical organizations in those countries. Letters on departmental 

 business should be sent to the Acting Director, Mr. J. B. Carruthers at Perad- 

 e^^iya ; private letters to the Royal Societies* Chib, 6^ St. James St., London, 

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