NEWS. 
Dr. G. M. HOLFERTY has been appointed instructor in botany in the 
high dchoat of St. Louis, Mo. 
Dr. J. F. GARBER has been appointed professor of biology in the state 
normal school at River Falls, Wis. 
Mr. H. H. York, assistant in botany at De Pauw University, has been 
appointed fellow in botany in the Ohio State University for 1903. 
PROFESSOR J. H. SCHAFFNER, of the Ohio State banipene a the 
summer vacation continuing his special studies on the flora of 
. C, FRYE, professor of biology ad interim in oa a re 
Sioux City, Iowa, has been appointed professor of botany in the University of 
Washington. 
Mr. EpMuND P. SHELDON has been appointed superintendent of the 
Oregon State Forestry exhibit for the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition at St. 
Louis in 1904. 
Dr. H. C. Cow Es is conducting a party from the University of Chicago, 
which is engaged in ecological work in Arizona. The party will examine the 
aspects of both desert and mountain floras. 
Dr. AUGUSTIN GATTINGER, author of a flora of Tennessee and for many 
years the most active collector in the state, died in Nashville July 18, at the 
age of seventy-eight. He was a native of Munic 
PROFESSOR Henry G. Jesup, for twenty-two years professor of botany 
in Dartmouth College, died June 15 at the age of seventy-seven. He retired 
from the active duties of his post four years ago and was made professor 
emeritus. 
AT THE University of Minnesota A. M. Johnson has been appointed 
scholar in botany. Miss Catherine Hillesheim has been appointed assistant 
on the Geological and Natural History Survey, vice Otto Rosendahl who has 
entered the University of Berlin. 
IN THE University of Missouri E. H. Favor, assistant in botany, has been 
transferred to the department of horticulture; Howard S. Reed, of the 
University of Michigan, and Charles Brooks, of the University of Indiana, 
have been appointed assistants in botany. 
THE NEW TROPICAL LABORATORY at Paramaribo, of which an account 
was given by Professor F. A, F. C. Went in the June number of this journal, 
will be under the direction of Dr. C. J. J. van Hall, who has been appointed 
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