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Professor C. R. Barnes has returned to his post after a vacation of 

 months. In the course of travel he visited many of the botanical 



establishments of Europe. 



Dr. J. C. Arthur was granted leave of absence by Purdue Univer- 

 sity and spent January and part of February at the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den in studying the genera and generic types of the Uredineae. 



Dr. Karl Gustav Limpricht, thebryologist, died October 20, 1902, at 

 the age of 68 years. His monumental work is the uncompleted Latib?noose 

 Detiischlands Oesterreichs unci der Schweiz, of which, however, only supple- 

 mentary parts remain to be published. 



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Miss Louise Brisbin Dunn, tutor in botany in Barnard College, Colum- 

 bia University, died suddenly of heart disease early on the morning of 

 December 18. She was a graduate of Barnard and since her graduation 

 has been a member of the teaching staff. — Science, 



Mr. a. E. Dickey of Indianapolis has recently endowed the biological 

 library of De Pauw University. The endowment is in the form of a memo- 

 rial to Mr. Dickey's father, the late Governor Alfred Dickey, of North Dakota, 

 and the library will hereafter be known as the Alfred Dickey Biological 

 Library. Mr. A. E. Dickey is a graduate of De Pauw University of the class 

 of '94. 



Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. announce that Kerner and Oliver's Natural 



History of Plants will no longer b^ published in four parts, but that in future 

 it will be issued in a lower priced edition in two volumes. The new edition 

 will lack only the colored illustrations of the former more expensive one, 

 which were inserted mainly for embellishment, but retains all the other illus- 

 trations, which were an essential part of the work. 



At the last convocation of the University of Chicago it was announced 

 that a gift of $20,000 had been made to increase the biological library, which 

 now numbers only about 12,000 volumes. The money being immediately 

 available, a committee is already directing the expenditure. All imperfect 

 sets of periodicals will be completed as far as possible, new series will be 

 purchased and maintained, and the balance will be applied to the purchase 



of single works. The gift will greatly improve the library facilities in the 

 biological departments. 



One of the recent important investigations undertaken by the Bureau 

 of Forestry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is a study of the relationship of 

 forests to stream-flow in the Rock River watershed of Illinois and southeast- 



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