NEWS. 
THE TORREY BOTANICAL Club of New York has elected Dr. A. Zahlbruck- 
ner of the Imperial Museum of Vienna a corresponding member. 
Dr. L. M. UNDERWOOD, of Columbia University, and Dr. H. H. Russy, 
of New York College of Pharmacy, will spend the summer at Kew. 
PROFESSOR S. M. Tracy, having resigned his position as Director of 
the Mississippi Experiment Station, has changed his address to Biloxi, 
Miss. 
Dr. Fritz MULLER, who has done so much to make known the botan- 
ical riches of tropical Brazil, died at Blumenau on the 21st of May, at the 
age of 75. 
Dr. ALBERT SCHNEIDER has been appointed to the chair of botany, 
pharmacognosy, and materia medica in the School of Pharmacy of the North- 
western University, Chicago. 
THE LAST TWO issues, nos. 17 and 18, of Lloyd’s Photogravures of Ameri- 
can Fungi give two views of Scleroderma Corium Grav. The specimen was 
collected in Kansas by Mr. E. Bartholomew. 
Dr. EDUARD FISCHER, who has been assistant professor of botany in the 
University of Bern, has been promoted to the professorship in place of his 
ather, Professor Dr. L. Fischer, who retires from active work. 
Miss BERTHA STONEMAN, a graduate of Cornell University, who has been 
Prosecuting her researches there during the past year, has been appointed to 
the chair of botany in the Huguenot College for Women in Cape Colony. 
ROBERT DovuG.as, who has for many years conducted an extensive 
nursery at Waukegan, Illinois, and has done much service in the advance- 
ment of arboriculture and forestry, died at his home on June Ist, at the age 
of 84. 
Count Victor TREVISAN, an Italian mycologist of repute, a native of 
Padua, died in Mailand on the 8th of April, in the 80th year of his age. 
He had amassed a large collection of cryptogams, which is very valuable in 
the results of his critical study. 
PROFESSOR RODNEY H. TRUE has begun in the Pharmaceutical Review 
a series of Papers on the anatomical characters of native drugs of Ceylon, 
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