1898] NEWS ° 295 
services of a man whose contributions to chemical physiology are so widely 
and favorably known. 
Mrs. WILLIAM STARR Dana is shortly to add another work to the series 
of which she is author. This one is to be entitled How to know ferns. It 
will be published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. 
THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN has received a legacy of £15,000 for 
founding the Cruickshank Botanical Garden. The director of the garden 
will be James W. Traill, professor of botany in the university. 
Mr. W. T. SWINGLE, who has been spending the year abroad, part of the 
time in the laboratory of Professor Pfeffer at Leipzig, will remain away 
several months longer before resuming his duties in the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. 
Mr. M. A. CARLETON is now in Russia as an agent of the U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture to study the cereals of that region. The results of his 
extended investigations upon the rusts of cereals were sent to press before 
his departure, and will be issued as a Bulletin of the Division of Vegetable 
Physiology and Pathology. 
THE LLoyp MycoLoGicaL Museum was increased during 1897 by nearly 
a thousand named specimens, and a list of the species and donors is given 
in the third report of the museum just issued. Fleshy fungi, both dry and 
preserved in alcohol, are desired. Correspondence should be addressed to 
Mr. C. G, Lloyd, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Dr. DANIEL Morris, assistant director of the Kew Botanical Gardens, 
has resigned this post to accept a government appointment as Imperial Com- 
missioner of Agriculture for the British West Indies, having in charge the 
newly established “ Botanical Department.” We are not informed what 
the relations of the commissioner to the present garden directors is to be. 
Natural Science suggests that he “will not be welcomed with open arms by 
the many botanists in those parts, which already have an excellent botanical 
garden and staff in Jamaica.” Dr, Morris sailed from England September 
21st, for Barbadoes, where he will establish his headquarters. 
THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA elected the following officers for 
the coming year: President, Lucien M. Underwood, of New York; Vice 
President, Benjamin L. Robinson, of Cambridge; Secretary, George F, Atkin- 
Son, of Ithaca; Treasurer, C. Arthur Hollick, of New York ; Councillors, 
Charles E, easy of Lincoln, and Wm. P. Wilson, of phere The 
following were elected ieebers of the society: Robert A. Harper, Univer- 
Sity of Wisconsin, Madison; Edward A. Burt, Middlebury es Middle- 
bury, Vt.: Herbert J. Webber, Department of Agriculture, Washington, 
D.C.; L. H. Pa mmel, Iowa Agricultural College, Ames; Albert S. Hitch- 
