NEWS. 
Dr. HERBERT L. JONES has been elected associate professor of botany in 
Oberlin College. 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH and portait of Baron Ferdinand von Mueller is 
published in Jour. Bot. 35: 272-278. 1897. 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH and portrait of the late Dr. E. S. Bastin are 
published in the Amer. Jour. Pharmacy 89: 385-391. 1897. 
IT IS ANNOUNCED that Professor Hugo de Vries of Amsterdam has been 
appointed successor to the late Professor J. Sachs, of Wiirzburg. 
THE OFFICERS of the Botanical Club for the Boston meeting are Conway 
Macmillan, president; Clare B. Waldron, vice president; and A. B. Sey- 
mour, secretary. 
PROFESSOR L. H. PAMMEL, of Ames, Iowa, wishes to obtain living and 
fresh material of mature or nearly mature pods and seeds of the Leguminosx 
of Gray’s Manual. 
A BRIEF ACCOUNT of “two southern botanical worthies,”” Thomas Walter 
and Dr. Francis Peyre Porcher, is given in a recent issue of Garden ana 
Forest (10: 301. 1897). 
AT THE DETROIT MEETING of the A. A. A. S., Dr. W. G. Farlow was 
elected vice president of the Botanical Section for the Boston meeting, and 
Erwin F. Smith, secretary. 
Miss ARMA ANNA SMITH, a graduate of Cornell University, receiving the 
degree of Master of Science in 1896, has been appointed assistant in botany 
in Mount Holyoke College, Mass. 
THE LEAF STRUCTURE of six pieces of Pilocarpus furnishing the commer- 
_ Cial jaborandi of the druggist is described and illustrated by Dr. Albert Schnei- 
der in the June number of the Journal of Pharmacology. 
HARVARD UNIVERsITY at the last commencement conferred the honorary 
degree A. M. upon Mr. Charles E. Faxon, whose work as an acute botanist 
and an unsurpassed botanical artist well merit this recognition. 
PROFESsoR D. T. MAcDouGAL has distributed reprints of his article on 
“Curvature of roots” (this journal for May) with title page and table of con- 
tents added, and with a statement that the paper was presented to the faculty 
of Purdue University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The doctorate 
was conferred at the recent commencement in June. 
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