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NEWS 



Mr. C. G. Pringle is making a collection of Cuban plants in the vicinity 



of Cienfuegos. 



Dr. J. H. Barnhart has been elected editor-in-chief of the publications 

 of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



The German Botanical Society has elected Professor Schwendener presi- 

 dent, and Professor Wettstein vice-president. 



Professor L. M. Underwood has gone to the West Indies to spend six 



months in the study of tropical American ferns. 



Professor Bruce Fink, of Upper Iowa University, has accepted the 

 new chair of botany at Iowa College, Grinnell, Iowa. 



Professors Solms-Laubach and Goebel have been elected honorary 

 members of the Zoological-Botanical Society of Vienna. 



Jordan's /cones Florae Eiiropae, of which only loo copies were printed, 

 will be completed this year by the publication of the lacking 220 plates. 



The Sharon Biological Observatory, a summer school for teachers 

 at Sharon, Mass., will experiment in forestry on a tract of 300 acres of wood- 

 land, which it purposes making into a model forest. 



The Desmazieres prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences has been 

 awarded to Professor Roland Thaxter, of Harvard University, for his study 

 on the parasitic fungi of American insects. — Science. 



The task of growing valuable forests on the barren sand-hills of Neb- 

 raska will begin this spring, when the Bureau of Forestry will seed about 100 



acres of Dismal River Forest Reserve near Halsey with red cedar and jack 

 pine. 



Joseph Burtt Davy, instructor in botany in the University of California, 

 has accepted the position of state agrostologist and botanist to the Depart- 

 rnent of Agriculture of the Transvaal government, wMth headquarters in 

 Pretoria.— 5riV;;^^, 



We are informed that the large private botanical library of the late 

 Alexis Jordan, of Lyon (1814-1897), containing many valuable works on the 

 flora of Europe, will be sold by auction next May. Paul Klincksieck, 3 rue 

 Corneille, Paris, is preparing the catalogue and will send it tree on applica- 

 tion as soon as ready. 



The Connecticut Botanical Society was organized in New Haven, 



January 24, 1903, and the following officers elected : Professor Alexander W. 



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