NEWS. 
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DR. WwW. DETMER, of the University of Jena, has 
been promoted to a full professorship. 
PROFESSOR Dr. HANS Motiscu has left Prag for the winter, which he 
will spend in botanical research at Buitenzorg, Java. 
Pror. Dr. HuGo DE VRIES has declined the call to the University of 
Wiirzburg as the successor of Professor Julius von Sachs. 
PROFESSOR A. W. BENNETT, long the editor of the department of botany 
of the Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, has been made editor-in- 
chief. 
IT IS ANNOUNCED that the ten years’ supplement to the /ndex Kewensts, 
which brings the work down to the end of the year 1895, will be issued during 
the present year. 
R. W. ROTHERT, of Kazan, has been appointed professor of botany and 
oe of the physiological division of the botanical department of the 
University of Charkow. 
PLATES nos. 1g and 20 of Lloyd's Photogravures of American Fungi 
show pier pulcherrimum B. & C. and Trametes serpens Fr., and are 
fine examples of most successful photographic work. 
A VALUABLE REVIEW of publications on agricultural botany issued in 
France du uring 1896 is given in Experiment Station Record, nos. to and 11 
eon ‘ais, 940-950). It was prepared t Edmond Gain of the University 
ancy. 
Dr. O. Loew has given up his work in the Imperial University of Tokyo 
©n account of impaired health. On the occasion of his departure a large 
Sold medal was presented to him by his colleagues and students as a token 
of their appreciation. 
PROFESSOR LESTER F. Warp recently delivered a series of five lectures, 
ne. - illustrated by lantern slides, on “The evolution of plants from the stand- 
Point of paleobotany,” before the students of the botanical and geological — 
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