NEWS. 
Mr. J. C. WILxIs has been appointed director of the Royal Botanic 
dens of Ceylon. < 
AT THE MEETING of the Linnean Society of London on May 7th, 
D. H. Campbell was elected a foreign member. ; 
PROFESSOR D, T. MACDOouGAL returned from Europe August oe 
short period of study in Professor Véchting’s laboratory at Tiibingen. 
Dr. J. C. Artruur left Bonn about August 15th, intending to 
few days in England, and to reach his work at Purdue University, 
tember Ist. | 
Mr. W. L. Bray, who has recently had charge of the botanical 
Lake Forest in the absence of Dr. Harper, has gone to Germany to §| 
year in study, . 
THE OBSERVER (Portland, Conn.) has been greatly enlarg! 
improved. It is now one of the best periodicals for amateur naturalists 
comes to our table. o 
PROFESSOR R, A. HARPER, of Lake Forest University, returne 
Europe a short time since. He was the recipient of the doctora 
University of Bonn during the last semester. 
MR. W. J. V, OSTERHOUT has accepted the position of i 
botany in the University of California. He recently returned from 
Study in Professor Strasburger’s laboratory at Bonn. 
DURING A RECENT visit of the king of Siam to the Botanic ei 
Buitenzorg the dignity of Commander of the Order of the ‘White 
was conferred upon Dr. M. Treub, director of the gardens. 
DURING THE SEMESTER just closed the workers in Professor: 
research laboratory at the Botanic Institute, Bonn, included five 
two Germans, one Swede, one Pole, one Russian and one E ng 
Ne 
Me DOG FAIRCHILD, after more than two years’ stud, 
laboratories, has gone to Buitenzorg, Java, to carry on further 
He has severed his connection with the United States Departmen 
culture, 
