﻿NEWS. 



Henry Holt and Company announce that*' a plant physiology," by 

 Professor George J. Pierce, will be issued in the spring. 



M. G. RouY has begun the publication of a monthly Revue de Botanique 

 System at iqtte et de Geographic Botanique, to be edited by himself. 



Professor L. H. Bailey has been appointed director of the college of 



agriculture and dean of the faculty of agriculture of Cornell University. 



M. MiLLARDET, formerly profcssor of botany at Bordeaux, who did much 

 to restore the French vineyards after their destruction by phylloxera, died 

 December 15 at the age of 64. 



We learn from Scze?ice that at Barnard College, Columbia University, 

 Dr. H. M. Richards and Miss Margaret E, Maltby have been promoted to 

 adjunct professorships of botany. 



Dr. G. R, Wieland, of the Yale University Museum, has received a 

 grant of $1,500 from the Carnegie Institution for the continuation of his 

 researches on the structure of fossil cycads. 



Dr. J. B. Overton, professor of biology in Illinois College, has been 

 appointed research assistant by the Carnegie Institution, and will spend a 

 year at the Botanical Institute of the University of Bonn, at the instance of 

 Professor Strasburger, to carry on researches under his direction. 



The first circular in reference to the International Botanical Con- 

 gress to be held in Vienna in 1905 has been issued. It contains a complete 

 list of the Committee of Organization, and also announces that the congress 

 will be held June 12-18, 1905. All correspondence in reference to it should 

 be addressed to Dr. A. Zahlbruckner, Vienna, I., Burgring 7. 



Dr. Frederick D. Heald has been elected adjunct professor of plant 

 physiology and general bacteriology in the University of Nebraska. He is 

 to develop the work, begun last year, in general bacteriology, and to oversee 

 the laboratory work in plant physiology. Dr. Heald is to begin his new work 

 in the summer, taking charge of the classes in botany in the summer session. 



Errata.— In the article by Professor Bruce Fmk in the March number the 

 editors are responsible for the transposition of the cuts on pages 203 and 205. 

 The inapplicability of the legends will render the mistake obvious. The 

 author wishes to repair his failure by now making grateful acknowledgment 

 of his indebtedness to Mr. C. J. Hibbard, of Minneapolis, for the photographs 

 from which illustrations were made. 



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