NEWS. 
Dr. M, WESTERMAIER, professor of botany in the University of Frei- 
burg, died on May 1. 
Dr. J. M. GREENMAN has been, promoted to an instructorship in botany 
at Harvard University. 
Dr. JosEPH E. K1IRKWOOD, instructor in botany in Syracuse University, 
has been promoted to an associate professorship. 
Dr. C. ARTHUR HoLLick will spend the summer in Alaska in paleo- 
botanical investigations under the auspices of the U. S. Geological Survey. 
AT THE June convocation the University of Chicago conferred the degree 
Ph.D, upon three candidates in botany, Harry N. Whitford, George M. Hol- 
ferty, and John F. Garber. 
Dr. Raymonp H. Ponp has been appointed professor of botany and 
- pharmacognosy and director of the microscopical laboratories of the School 
of Pharmacy of Northwestern University. 
M. FR. CrEPIn, the director of the Royal Botanical Garden at Brussels, 
died April 30, at the age of seventy-two. He has been incapacitated for 
more than a year by illness. M. Th. Durand, the curator of the herba- 
rium, has been appointed director. 
THE WoRK on Péeridophyta and Spermatophyta of Southern California, by 
Samuel B. Parish, which the Southern California Academy of Sciences pro- 
posed two years ago to publish as volume II of its Proceedings if a sufficient 
number of subscribers could be obtained, will not be published on account of 
lack of support for the undertaking. 
Dr. Gustav RADDE, imperial councilor and director of the Caucasian 
Museum, died recently at Tiflis at the age of seventy-one. He has been 
widely known as a student of the oriental flora, One of his last important 
works was Grundsziige der Pflanzenverbreitung in den Kaukasuslandern, 
reviewed in this journal in April 1902. 
On APRIL Io, at the age of seventy-five, the venerable mycologist, Dr. 
Andreas Allescher, died suddenly of apoplexy at Munich. On retiring from 
active teaching in the Kénigl. Kreis-Lehrerinnen-Seminar he devoted the last 
five years of his life to the elaboration of the Fungi Imperfecti for Raben- 
horst’s Kryftogamen-Flora, a task which happily he completed before his 
death, 
THE FORMAL OPENING of the new Lake Laboratory building of the 
‘Ohio State University, recently erected at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, took 
Place Thursday, July 2, 1903. Addresses were given by Professor C. J. 
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