NEWs. 
Dr. DoucLas H. CAMPBELL has spent the past summer in Japan. 
THE OFFICERS of Section G of the A. A. A-S. for the next year are G. 
F. Atkinson, Vice President, F. C. Newcombe, Secretary. 
IN THE ABSENCE of Mr. Coville, President of the Botanical Club at its 
Buffalo meeting, Professor W. A. Kellerman was appointed. 
THE OFFICERS of the Botanical Club for the next year are S. M. Tracy 
President; L. R. Jones, Vice President; E.S. Burgess, Secretary. 
Mr. C. H. Peck and Mr. B. T. Galloway were elected members of the 
Botanical Society of America at its Buffalo meeting, bringing the number of 
members to twenty-five. 
Epwin B. CopELAND, of the University of Wisconsin, has returned from 
a year’s study in the botanical institutes of Tiibingen and Halle, from the 
latter of which he received the doctor’s degree summa cum laude. 
THE BoranicaL Soctery at its Buffalo meeting was represented by the 
following members : Atkinson, Bailey, Barnes, Bessey, Britton (E. G.), 
Britton (N. L.), Coulter, Hollick, MacMillan, Trelease, and Underwood. 
Mr. A. P, ANDERSON, assistant in botany at the University of Minnesota, 
who has been studying abroad for two years, received the doctor's degree from 
the University of Munich in August, and has since returned to this country. 
: Mr. 0. F. Cook has been appointed curator of the cryptogamic collec- 
tions of the National Herbarium, under the Division of Botany. He has the 
Privilege of leave of absence to visit Africa whenever his duties there demand It. 
THE OFFICERS of the Botanical Society of America for the next year are 
John M, Coulter, President; C. S. Sargent, Vice President, C. R. Barnes, 
Secretary > Arthur Hollick, Zreasurer; B. L. Robinson and F. V. Coville, 
ouncillors. 
PRorEssor A. N, PRENTISS, formerly Professor of Botany at Cornell 
University, died at his home in Ithaca, Aug. 14th. A biographical sketch of 
nag Prentiss, prepared by his successor, Professor Atkinson, was pub- 
shed in Bor. Gaz. 21:283. 1896. 
9 RESPONSE to a suggestion by Professor S. M. Tracy, Section G of ~ 
jos Ss at the Buffalo meeting, appointed Professors N. Le eee me : 
ao aS a Committee to take under consideration the subj 
1896} Should be the usage of the phrase “type specimen. 
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