NEWS. 
PROFESSOR Dr. Ww. ZOPF has been called from Halle to Miinster as suc- 
cessor to Dr. O. Brefeld. 
Dr. Orro STAPF has been promoted to chief assistant in the Kew her- 
barium, succeeding Mr. W. B. Hemsley. 
A COMMITTEE has been formed to collect funds for a marble bust of the 
late Dr. Guiseppe Gibelli, professor of botany in the University of Turin. 
PROFESSOR Dr. G. KArRSTEN, of Kiel, has been called to the or 
professorship of botany at Bonn, as successor to Professor Dr. A. F. W. 
chimper 
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HE BOTANICAL INSTITUTE of Rome, under the direction of sare 
Pirotta, held during March and April a series of public conferences on 
nutrition of plants. 
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Dr. J. M. JANSE has been appointed to the directorship of the ae 
garden at Leyden, a post held by the late Professor W. F. R. Suring; 
more than thirty-five years. 
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR W. C. STEVENS, of the University of sage a 
recently been promoted to the professorship of botany, and Assistant mit 
sor M. A. Barber to associate professor of bacteriology and crypto 
botany. ; 
Dr. A. P. ANDERSON has been appointed assistant professor of gs 
charge of plant physiology, in the University of Minnesota, ce ‘birt 
MacDougal, who recently resigned to accept the directorship of the 
tories of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Dr. L. Buscatront1, assistant in the botanical institute * aay” 
March 15 for a long expedition in Brazil. There, accompanied by vevions 
for the botanical museum, he intends to explore the little known 3 
the upper affluents of the Amazon, and to cross the Andes. on 
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Mr. Cuas. A. KerFer, for the past five years assistant chief - abate 
of Forestry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has resigned to pe 
tion as head of the department of horticulture and agri orester, 
Mexico Agricultural College at Mesilla Park, New Mexico.— 
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