NEWS. 
THE ATTENTION of contributors is called to the new regulations concern- 
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ing separates, which are announced in this number of the GAZE 
Mr. Bb, E. FERNow, Chief of the Division of Forestry, has been called to 
Hawaii to make a reconnoissance and to report concerning desirable forestry 
legislation. 
Mr. FRANCES ees Instructor in Pharmaceutical Botany, in the 
University of Minnesota, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Botany 
in the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 
PROFESSOR G. F, ATKINSON has been experimenting upon plants with 
the Réntgen rays, and has published a preliminary report in Scéence (January 
7). No conclusions are reached, as might be inferred from the following 
statement: ‘‘The longer my experiments continued the more mysterious the 
whole subject seemed.” 
THE proposed “ Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology : — iinet 
cessfully organized at Ithaca at the recent meeting of the Amertan Society 
of Naturalists and affiliated societies. A full account of this meeting, both 
as to the organization of the society and as to the papers read, will appear in 
the February number of the BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
THE COLLECTION of plants and literature made by “the late Professor 
L.N. Johnson, of Ann Arbor, are offered for sale. Professor Jobuson was 
especially interested in alge, particularly the desmids, and had published a 
number of papers concerning them. The writer has inspected the list of 
books and papers and finds the alga literature well represented. 
eis reported in Sczence that ground was formally broken for the museum 
building of the New York Botanical Garden, on December 31. The contract 
for the construction and equipment of the museum building, power-house, and 
mittor buildings, has been awarded for $347,019. The plans for the great 
TSRSe Of horticultural houses have been completed, and specifications for 
then have been printed. During the past season about 2900 species ie 
plants have been obtained, together with large quantities of museum, library, 
and herbarium material. 
THE PREss REPORTS of the burning of Pardee Hall at Lafayette College 
Stated that the entire collection of Dr. Thomas C. Porter had been destroyed. 
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