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NEWS. 
M. CAMILLE SAUVAGEAU has been appointed professor of botany in the 
University of Dijon. 
WE NOTE the recent death of Professor Joseph Gibelli, professor of botany 
at the University of Turin. 
Dr. DOMENICO SACCARDO has been called to Bologna as the assistant of 
Professor Fausto Morini in the botanical garden of the university. 
THE distinguished phycologist, J. B. Edouard Bornet, of Paris, celebrated 
his seventieth birthday on the second of September last. 
THE SECOND annual meeting of the Society for Plant Morphology and 
Physiology will be held at Columbia University, Wednesday to Friday, 
December 28 to 30. 
PROFESSOR Dr. C. SCHROTER, of Ziirich, began about the last of August 
a tour of the world, intending to visit North America, Japan, China, Java, 
Sumatra, India, and Egypt. 
ACCORDING to the newspapers Professor Dr. Oscar Brefeld of Miinster 
has accepted the call to the University of Breslau as successor to the late 
Dr. Ferdinand Cohn.— Bot. Zett. 
Dr. G. VENTURI, the well-known Austrian bryologist, died on’ the fifth of 
June. His moss herbarium, containing about 4000 species, and his library 
were bequeathed to the city of Trent. 
Dr. Ernst BAUER (Smichow bei Prag, N. C. 961) has begun the issue of 
a set of exsiccati, entitled Bryotheca Bohemica. In the issue of Century I 
Dr. V. Schiffner and other less known bryologists have cooperated with Dr. 
Bauer. The price per century is 1/14. 
From the Forester we learn that the New York College of Forestry has 
about thirty-five students taking advantage of its courses. Only va Brae 
regularly matriculated in the college, the rest being students of se wT 
who registered in College of Agriculture to escape fees, intending to change 
Over to the College of Forestry later. 
Dr. CARL FREIHERR VON TUBEUF, private docent in the university ra 
the technological school of Munich and director of the Bavarian cage ne 
plant protection and plant diseases, has been given sgeopescetn sh € 2 oe 
ment to take a staff position in the biological experiment station we att oe 
and forestry connected with the imperial bureau of hygiene sg ai 
will direct the botanical laboratory. 
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