NEWS. 
Dr. N. Buscu, of Dorpat, is about to make a botanical investigation of 
certain unexplored regions in northern Caucasus. 
Dr. F. Kout, assistant professor of botany in the University of Marburg, 
has been advanced to the professorship. 
Dr. K. MULLER, privat-docent in the technical high school in Berlin, has 
been appointed assistant professor of botany. 
Dr. M. WESTERMAIER, professor of botany in Freising, has been appointed 
to the same chair in the University of Freiburg, Switzerland. 
Mr. J. H. MAIDEN has been appointed Government Botanist and Direct, 
of the Botanic Gardens at Sydney, to succeed Mr. Charles Moore. 
IN THE RECENTLY organized department of biology in the graduate school . m 
of Georgetown University Mr. M. B. Waite has been appointed professor of 
botany. Dee 
Mr. W. ALPHONSO MuRRILL has recently discovered the rare Asunes 
ebenoides at Blacksburg, Va. His field notes are published in the Linnean 
Fern Bulletin for October. a 
DR. A. ZIMMERMANN, privat-docent in the University of Berlin, b Bt 
to the Botanic Garden of Buitenzorg, Java, where he began October first his 
duties as botanist to the new department of coffee culture. a 
THE RICHEST COLLECTION of palms in the world is said* to bem © 
Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg, Java. It contains three hundred specie 
are determined, one hundred probably new and still undescribed, and 
hundred varieties of known species. | 
THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, at its recent meeting im 
took the following action in reference to the death of Mr. M. S. Bebb: 
“The Botanical Society of America desires to place upon record an ue oe 
esteem for its deceased member, Michael Schuck Bebb, who died Decem he ae 
at San Bernardino, California, His published studies upon the diffi Pe 
have brought him‘to high rank as a professional botanist, and American 
to him a debt of gratitude as one of its most distinguished representatives. 
* Garden and Forest 9:360. 1896. 
