mata, 
NEWS. 
PROFESSOR L, H. BaILEy has returned from Europe before completing 
his proposed year abroad. 
THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY announces a booklet by Mrs, Julia 
McNair Wright to be called The story of plant life. 
Mr. E. O. Wooton has been appointed professor of botany at the New 
Mexico Agricultural College and Experiment Station. 
From £rythea we learn that Dr, Marshall A. Howe has nearly com- 
pleted an illustrated monograph of Californian Hepatic. 
Henry Hort & Co. announce for publication this fall an elementary 
botany by Professor George F. Atkinson, of Cornell University. 
PROFESSOR STANLEY COULTER, of Purdue University, who spent most of 
the time of his vacation trip in the botanical laboratory at Bonn, has returned 
to his home. 
Dr. CHARLES R. BARNES was elected vice president, and chairman of 
section G (botany), A. A. A. S., for the fifty-first meeting, which is to be held 
at Columbus, Ohio. 
PROFESSOR A, F. W. Scuimper, of the University of Bonn, has been 
called to Basel as the successor of Professor Dr. George Klebs, who goes to 
the University of Halle. 
Mr. F. O. Grover, of Harvard University, has been appointed instructor 
in botany in Oberlin College to succeed Professor H. L, Jones, whose untimely 
death we chronicled last month. 
THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION of Dr. Franz Lafar’s Technical mycology, 
already published in England, is announced for fall publication by the Lip- 
pincott Company, of Philadelphia. 
Dr. O. BREFELD, director of the Botanical Garden and Institute at » 
Miinster, has been unanimously: called to the University of Breslau, to suc- 
ceed the late Dr. Ferdinand Cohn. 
R. O. LOEw, of Munich, has accepted a call to the Department of 
Agriculture at Washington. He brings to the department his thorough 
knowledge and high reputation as a chemist devoted to the problems of plant 
physiology. The department is to be congratulated upon procuring the 
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