NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. Ws. L. Bray sails for Berlin about the middle of July to be 
abroad a year. 
Dr. Victor ScHIFFNER has been called to the professorship of sys- 
tematic botany at the German University of Prague. 
A List of the orchids grown in the Botanic Gardens of Jamaica Is 
given in the Bulletin of the Bot. Dept. Jamaica, for April. It numbers 
256 species belonging to eighty-one genera. 
THE BOTANISTS of Vermont have organized what seems to be a very 
vigorous state botanical club, which held its first winter meeting last 
February at the Museum of the University of Vermont. 
_ Prors. J. C. ArrHur and D. T. MacDougal sailed for gate: early 
in june. Dr. Arthur will spend the summer at Bonn with Stras- 
burger and Prof. MacDougal at Tiibingen with Vochting. 
Mr. T. D. A. CockerELL has announced the proposed establish- 
ment of a biological station in New Mexico, as a “health and holiday 
Posed for scientific persons.” He may be addressed at Las Cruces, 
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PRoressor E. L. Greens, in Pittonia (May 16), has given a histoyy 
of Viola pedata, var. bicolor; showing that the variety is really the /. 
pedata L., and that the V. pedata of American authors was a form dis- 
covered much later, for which he proposes the name var. nornaia. 
RITTON, professor of botany in Columbia University ~ 
been appointed director of the New York Botanical Garden, and the 
Place so made vacant has been filled by the appointment of Dr. Lu- 
cien M. Underwood, now professor of botany in Alabama Polytechnic 
Institute. 
Pror. W. Wuitman BalLey has been appointed by President Cleve- 
land a member of the Board of Vision eo the West Point Military 
Academy. Prof. Bailey was born at West Point in 1843, the younges 
son of Prof. J. W. Bailey the microscopist, who was a graduate of t 
Academy. 
AN ILLUSTRATION of Lrythronium Johnsoni Bolander, of the Coast 
i shed in Zhe Gardeners Sis 
cle (May 2). In the same number the fertile cones of the A ee 
Sequoia (We ellingtonia) gigantea and the Californian S. sempervirens 
illustrated, showing also individual bracts and ovules. 
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arranged by advanced students. The work is under the direction of 
Prof. C. R. Barnes, 
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