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$62,200, and to the Bureau of Forestry $350,000, an increase of $58,140 

 over last year. 



Mr. Charles A. Davis, instructor in forestry in the University of 

 Michigan, has been engaged to prepare a map showing the distribution of 

 forest trees and soil relations for the Ann Arbor sheet of the topographic 

 atlas soon to be published by the United States Geological Survey. — Science, 



Otto Jaap, of Hamburg (Mittelstr. 67) has undertaken the publication 

 of Fungi Selecti Exsiccati, consisting of new or rare species in series of 

 twenty-five numbers, with printed labels. Heteroecious species are to be 

 represented in their different forms under the same number. The first series 

 consists of forty-two pockets, representing twenty-five species. 



The ranks of mycologists have suffered an irreparable loss in the death 

 of Dr. A. N. Berlese, which occurred on January 26 at Milan, where he was 

 professor of plant pathology in the Agricultural College. Although only 

 thirty-eight years of age, his name has become well known to the scientific 

 world on ac(!ount of his extensive work in mycology and plant pathology. 



Mr. Thomas Howell, editor of the Flora of the Northwest and a 

 veteran collector in that region, has been appointed for the coming year field 

 collector and curator of the herbarium for the University of Oregon. He has 

 donated his herbarium to the University. It contains specimens from Oregon, 

 Washington, Idaho, and Alaska to the number of ten thousand or more, 

 many of them being types. 



The Michigan Academy of Science, at its recent meeting held in Ann 

 Arbor, elected among its officers for the ensuing year the following botanists: 

 as president, Dr. Frederick C. Newcombe, University of Michigan; as secre- 

 tary, Dr. James B. Pollock, University of Michigan ; as vice-president of the 

 section of botany, Professor B. O. Longyear, Michigan Agricultural College ; 

 as vice-president of the section of agriculture, Professor W. J. Beal, Michigan 

 Agricultural College. 



M. IEmile Bescherelle, honorary chief of division of Ministry of Public 

 Works in France, died on February 26 in the seventy-sixth year of his age. 

 For a long time he has devoted his leisure to the study of mosses, in whose 

 taxonomy he had become an acknowledged authority. He had been for 

 some years in feeble health, but continued work to the last upon a Sylloge, in 



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which he intended to include all the diagnoses of new species published by 

 him from 1862 to 1902. He had been president of the Botanical Society of 

 France and was corresponding member of the Museum d'Histoire naturelle, 

 to which establishment he has given his type specimens. 



Professor H. L. Bolley, botanist of the North Dakota Agricultural 

 J^ollege and Experiment Station, has been appointed special agent for the 

 investigation of the flax crop and flax diseases in Europe. Mr. Bolley will 

 sail the first of June, spend some time in the Netherlands, and then proceed 



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