NEWS. 
Dr. B. E. Livingston has been granted a research scholarship by the 
New York Botanical Garden, where he will spend some months on leave of 
absence from the University of Chicago. 
MER R. FosTER, for the past five years professor of botany in the 
University of Washington, has resigned to take up commercial work in con- 
nection with a large hardwood lumber firm in Chicago. 
CHARLES J. BRAND, who for the past year has been assistant in plant 
economics at the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago, has been promoted 
to the position of assistant curator, department of botany, in that institution. 
Mr. Brand is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. 
Mr. C. G. LLoyn, of Cincinnati, seems to have been elected a member 
both of the German Botanical Society and of the Botanical Society of France. 
Though the Germans print the name L. G. and the French C. J., it is doubt- 
less our well-known mycologist who is intended in both instances. 
THe FRENCH NATIONAL SOCIETY of Agriculture has awarded a gold 
medal to M. Lucien Daniel for his researches on grafting; a silver medal 
to M. Paul Parmentier for his 7vazté de botanigue agricole; and a bronze 
medal to M. Th. Husnot (best known as a bryologist) for a book on Les 
bres et les herbages. 
THE BOTANICAL GARDEN of Buitenzorg has begun issuing still another 
publication, entitled /cones Bogonienses, in which are to be described and 
figured new or little-known species of the Dutch possessions, or species culti- 
vated in the garden. Four fascicles have already appeared, and others are 
to be published at irregular intervals. 
THE HERBARIUM of the late Alexis Jordan has been acquired by the 
Catholic University of Lyons. The duplicates are to be sold, at prices varying 
from 20 fr. to 12 fr. per 100, according to the completeness and quality of the 
sets. The best will contain from 7,000 to 12,000 species. Applications may 
be made to Professor Roux, rue du Plat, Lyons, France. 
EDMUND P. SHELDON and M. W. Gorman have undertaken a botani- 
cal expedition to the “Three Sisters,’ snow peaks of the Cascade range in 
Oregon. These mountains, unnamed and for the most part unknown, are all 
Over 10,000 feet high, and the obsidian cliffs, glaciers, and waterfalls of the 
region are said to be wonderful. It is likely that the trip will yield a large 
number of interesting plants. 
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