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NEWS. 



Dr, L. M. Underwood sailed for Europe on the 6th of June. He 

 intends studying in the larger herbaria during the summer. 



1 HE GOLD MEDAL of the Linnean Society for the current year has been 

 conferred upon the veteran British mycologist. Dr. M. C. Cooke, 



Mr. Samuel M. Coulter, of the Shaw School of Botany, has been 

 promoted from an instructorship to be assistant professor of botany. 



Mr. Howard S. Reed, assistant in plant physiology in the University 

 ( ot Michigan, has been appointed instructor in botany at the University of 



' Missouri.— Science. 



Lorin Low Dame, a student of the New England flora, especially of 

 the trees of New England, and joint author of several local floras, and an 

 unusually successful director of secondary schools, died on January 27, 1903. 



Mr. William R. Maxon, of the U. S. National Museum, has recently 



returned from a successful collectine^ tour with Professor L. M. Underwood, 

 m the Blue Mountain region of Jamaica. He has brought with him a fine 

 collection of ferns. 



Professor Albert ScHx\eider, of the School of Pharmacy of North- 

 western University, has been appointed professor of botany, materia medica, 

 and pharmacognosy in the California College of Pharmacy at San Francisco. 

 a department of the University of California. He will begin his duties in July. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Bureau of Forestry, has been 

 elected to a professorship in the Forest School of Yale University. He will 

 continue his work and his residence in Washington, but by special arrange- 

 ment will lecture at Yale. Assistant Professor J. W. Tourney has been 

 advanced to a full professorship in the Forest School-Sa'ence. 



At the annual meeting of the regents of the University of Nebraska on 

 April 24 and 25, Frank G. Miller, of the Yale School of Forestry, was 

 elected professor of forestry, his services to begin September next ; Dr. F. 

 E- Clements was promoted from adjunct professor of botany to assistant 

 professor of botany; and H. L. Shantz was appointed an instructor in 



'boUny.Sczence. 



We learn from Gardeners Chronicle that the new fire-proof herbarium 

 l>uilding just outside the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew is completed, and 

 that the plant cases are to be removed at once from the old building while it 



is being rebuilt and made as nearly fire-proof as possible. The new "wing 



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