﻿NEWS. 



Professor Dr. E. Heinricher, of the University of Innsbruck, will 

 depart for Buitenzorg, Java, in the autumn. 



Dr. Oscar Emmerling has been promoted to an associate professorship 

 of botany in the University of Berlin. — Science. 



The title of professor has been conferred upon Drs. Gustav Lindau, 

 Paul Hennings, and Carl Holtermann, of Berlin. 



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Professor W. A. Setchell, of the University of California, will spend 

 next year in Europe in botanical investigation and travel. 



Professor Volnev M. Spalding, of the University of Michigan, has 

 been given a year*s leave of absence, which he expects to devote to travel 

 abroad. 



Dr. Michael Woronin, member of the Academy and professor of 

 botany in the.University of St. Petersburg, died recently at the age of seventy- 

 five years. 



Professor John M. Coulter, head of the Department of Botany in 

 the University of Chicago, will travel in Europe during the summer and 

 autumn. He sails with his family on May 23. 



Dr. a. Ginzberger has been promoted to the position of adjunct in the 

 Botanical Museum and Garden of the Imperial University of Vienna. Dr. 

 O. PORSCH has been appointed assistant in the same institution. 



Mr. a. D, Selby, botanist to the Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Wooster, Ohio, who has been in residence at the New York Botanical Garden 

 since December, has been granted a research scholarship of the Garden. 

 Science. 



Professor R. E. Smith, assistant in botany at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College and Experiment Station, has accepted the position of 

 pathologist and assistant professor in botany in the University of California. 

 — Science. 



FiLlBERT Roth, formerly assistant professor of forestry at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, and later chief of Forest Reservations in the Department of the 

 Interior, has been appointed professor of forestry in the University of Michi- 

 gan. — Science. 



In THE NEW appropriation to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, $674,- 

 930 have been granted to the Bureau of Plant Industry, an increase of 



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