NEWS. 
Dr. WILLIAM TRELEASE spent a month in Mexico this summer in the 
study of agaves and other plants. 
Dr. O. MELVILLE BALL, of Batesville, Va., and Dr. E. F. Fritscu, of 
London, have been elected members of the German Botanical Society. 
Mr. W. BotrinG HEMSLEy, keeper of the Kew Herbarium, has been 
made associate editor (with Sir Joseph Hooker) of the Botanical Magazine. 
THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT of Stanford University has just entered 
the new and commodious quarters which have been in process of construction 
for more than three years. 
Dr. J. A. HARRIS, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, has been appointed 
assistant in the Shaw School of Botany of Washington University. An 
appointment of his successor at the Garden will shortly be made. 
Mr. CHARLES A. Davis, instructor in forestry in the University of 
Michigan, is engaged in an extended comparative study of the inland lakes 
and bogs of the lower peninsula of the state with reference to their geologi- 
cal and botanical] history and the conditions of peat formation. 
PROFESSOR CHARLES E. BESSEyY has been accompanying his son this 
summer in a journey through the Caucasus region. They crossed the 
mountains by the Mamisson pass—‘‘a botanist’s paradise,” he writes — and 
were in Tiflis on August 19. After a week's journey to the south, they were 
to turn homeward. 
Mr. FILBERT Roru, recently appointed to the chair of forestry in the 
University of Michigan, has also been elected forest warden of the state by 
the Michigan Forestry Commission. He has organized a party of forestry 
students, who are engaged in a preliminary survey of the state forest reserva- 
tions in Roscommon county, Michigan. 
WE LEARN from the Journal of Botany that the second and third 
volumes of the /cones ad Floram Europae, including plates 281-500, have 
been issued under the superintendence of M. Camille A. Jordan, the text 
having been prepared by the late Alexis Jordan. The remaining incomplete 
text and about 100 plates will not be published, but have been intrusted to 
the Botanical Society of France, at whose rooms they may be consulted. 
Dr. D. H. CAMPBELL left San Francisco on May 15,spent three weeks in 
New Zealand, and a month in Australia, where, through the kindness of Mr. 
Maiden, the director of the Sydney Gardens, he saw a great deal of the very 
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