NEWS. 
Mr. JoHN S. WriGuT has been appointed lecturer in botany at the 
Indiana Medical College, a department of the Indianapolis University. 
THE PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT of an international botanical station at 
Palermo, Italy, under the direction of Professor Borzi, is announced by 
ature. 
AN ADDRESS upon “Grasses” by Professor F. Lamson-Scribner, deliv- 
ered before the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, has been published by 
the society for distribution. 
Dr. A. P. ANDERSON is spending the present year at the Missouri Botan- 
ical Garden, where he finds suitable facilities for the further prosecution of 
his researches in connection with the resin ducts of conifers. 
Mr. M. A. Lawson, botanist and director of cinchona plantations to the 
Madras government, died at Madras F ebruary 14th last. From 1868 to 
1882 he was Sherardian Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford. 
Mr. WALTER T. SWINGLE returned in October to resume his duties 
the United States Department of Agriculture after a year spent abroad. He 
studied chiefly in the laboratories of Bonn and the Biological Station 
aples. 
ATTENTION is called by the biographer to an inaccuracy in the sketch 
of the late Professor Frentiss which appeared in this journal for May 
last. He was born May 22, 1836, in Cazenovia, Madison county, N. ¥, ne 
in Oneida county, as stated in the sketch. 
Dr. HERBERT M. RICHARDS, who has been studying in Professor Pfeffer s 
laboratory at Leipzig during the last year, having held a traveling or 
from Harvard University, returned to this country in August, and 1s nO 
installed as lecturer in botany at Barnard College, New York city. 
an Fungi’ 
NUMBERS II AND 12 of Lloyd’s Photogravures of Americ ani 
have recently been distributed. They represent respectively Lefiola se 
Peck and Sfarassis fferbstit Peck, two interesting species. ee 
Photographed as it grew in the field, and makes an unusually attrac 
characteristic picture, 
tive and 
ain 
DURING A CYCLONE in the early part of October the roof of ees 
building of the Agricultural College at Lake City, Florida, was P es 
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