. 140 BOTANICAL GAZETTE { AUGUST 
THE NEw OFFICERS of the Botanical Society of America are as follows: 
N. L. Britton, president; J. C. Arthur, vice president; C. R. Barnes, secre- 
tary; Arthur Hollick, treasurer; B. L. Robinson and F. V. Coville, coun- 
cillors. 
THE SAD INTELLIGENCE has just reached us that Dr. J. E. Humphrey 
died at Port Antonio, Jamaica, August 17, where he was engaged in botanical 
work with a party of biologists from Johns Hopkins University. No details 
have been obtained. 
AMONG THE AWARDS recently made by the Berlin Academy of Sciences 
for scientific work, were J/. 2000 to our associate, Professor Engler, for the 
publication of monographs on African botany; and J/. goo to Dr. G, Lindau 
for studies in lichens. 
Drs. CAMPBELL AND MACDouGat were present at the Toronto meeting 
of the Botanical Society of America, and gave a brief account of their study 
of Jamaica as a site for a tropical laboratory. The West Indies will be 
examined further by Drs. Farlow and Coulter during the winter. 
PROFEssoR A. S. Hitcucock, of the State Agricultural College, Manhattan, 
Kansas, has published an interesting account of the botanical department 
of that institution in the /zdustrialist, the college paper. The space given to 
the work and the apparatus speak of excellent opportunities. The herba- 
rium is said to contain 51,975 specimens, of which 10,000 are fungi. 
AMONG THE BOTANISTS who attended the Toronto meeting of the British 
Association were Bower, Farmer, Green, Marshall Ward, Wager, and Seward 
from England; Magnus from Germany; Jeffrey and Penhallow from Can- 
ada; Arthur, Atkinson, Barnes, Bessey, Britton, Campbell, Coulter, Farlow, 
Galloway, Greene, MacDougal, Newcombe, and Spalding from the United 
States. 
THE DEDICATION of the Hull Biological Laboratories, of the University 
of Chicago, July 2, a conference was held composed of instructors in botany 
in universities and secondary schools. ‘The botanical building was occupied 
by students beginning with the summer quarter, July 1. All of the space » 
designed for courses in morphology has been taken by students, as well as 
all of the private research rooms. 
If IS ANNOUNCED that the September number of the American Naturalist 
will appear under entirely new management. The magazine has been pur- 
chased from the estate of the late Professor Cope by a number of gentlemen, 
and Dr. Robert P. Bigelow, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 
accepted the position of editor-in-chief. There will be also an editorial 
committee and a board of associate editors, whose names will be announced 
ater. 
