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NEWS. 
Dr. E, ULE has returned to Berlin with rich collections from South 
America. 
Dr. EUGENE ASKENASY, sears professor of plant physiology in the 
University of Heidelberg, died recently. 
THE Revue Générale des Sciences for October 30 contains a full account 
of the life and work of the late Professor Cornu. 
Dr. ANTON HANSGIRG, of Prag, has retired after forty years’ service as 
professor of botany in the Imperial University of Bohemia. 
Dr. E, B. CopELAND has been appointed “systematic botanist” by the 
Philigpine Commission, and sailed November 10 for Manila. 
- AMERICAN GARDENING announces that Mrs. Phoebe Hearst has pro- 
vided funds for the erection of a building for the department of botany in the 
University of California. 
THE RoyaL Society has awarded a medal to Mr. Horace T. Brown for 
the work on the chemistry of carbohydrates and on the assimilation of car- 
bon dioxid by green plants. 
THE LONG PROMISED English translation of Schimper’s Plant Geography, 
by W. R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Bal- 
four, is promised for December 15 by the Oxford University Press. 
DR. ARNOLD DoDEL has retired from the professorship of botany in the 
University of Ziirich, The post vacated will not be filled, but Dr. Alfred 
Ernst, the assistant, will give instruction in general botany and physiology. 
AFTER A short illness the well known systematist, Hofrath Professor C. 
Haussknecht, died in Weimar on July 7. His large herbarium will be main- 
tained by the family under the auspices of the Thuringian Botanical Society. 
ON OcToBER 25, the twenty-fifth anniversary of Professor Hugo DeVries 
appointment as professor of botany at Amsterdam, Professor Went, on behalf 
of his Dutch friends, a him with 4250 gulden to be devoted to the 
further study of mutation 
UPON INVITATION the Botanists of the Central States will meet at St 
Louis during the annual meeting of the A. A. A. S., December 28, 1903, to 
January 2, 1904. A business meeting of the society will be held on the 
morning of December 30, at a place and hour to be announced on the gen- 
eral program. 
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