NEWS. 
Mr. A. A. HELLER has removed to Los Gatos, California. 
Dr. JOHN L, SHELDON has been appointed professor of bacteriology in the 
University of West Virginia. 
Dr. JosepH H. MELLICHAMP, an ardent student of the southern flora, 
died October 2 in James Island, S. C. 
THE ATTENTION of subscribers is directed to the announcement in the 
advertising pages regarding the general index. The error in the first notice 
is corrected, and we hope the approval of the index will be general enough 
to insure its publication by the University Press. It is already in an 
advanced stage of preparation. 
Mr. CoRNELIUS VAN Brunt, an expert photographer of native plants, 
died at his home in New York city on October 1, at the age of seventy-seven. 
No one who once had the pleasure of seeing the wonderful lantern slides 
made by Mr. Van Brunt, and colored to the life by Mrs. Van Brunt, will ever 
forget the perfection of their technical skill, directed as it was by their keen 
appreciation of floral beauty. 
THE SEVENTH annual meeting of the Society for Plant Morphology and 
Physiology will be held at Philadelphia, Pa.,in conjunction with the meetings 
of several other scientific societies, on December 29, 30, 31, 1903. This is 
the first meeting of this society in Philadelphia, though the preliminary steps 
which led to its formation were taken there at the meeting of the American 
Society of Naturalists in December 1895. 
Mr. A. M, FERGUSON, instructor in botany in the University of Texas, 
has been given leave of absence for one year by the University of Texas, 
and has been appointed special agent for the office of Pathology and Physiol- 
ogy, Bureau of Plant Industry, to investigate technical problems in connection 
with mushroom culture. He has been assigned to the botanical department 
of the University of Missouri. He has been recently occupied with the study 
of the so-called fungus gardens of the various species of fungus-eating ants 
occurring in Texas. 
PROFEssoR B, E. FERNOW, late director of the New York State College 
of Forestry, is writing a book on biological dendrology. He is also giving 
Privately courses on Forest management and Forest finance to a number of 
former students of the College of Forestry, who have returned to Cornell Uni- 
versity for a baccalaurate degree and to finish their forestry education by 
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