NEWS. 
GEBRUDER BORNTRAEGER have issued a neat pamphlet containing a full 
description of their numerous scientific publications. 
PROFESSOR Dr. GREGOR Kraus has been called to the professorship of 
botany in the University of Wiirzburg, as successor to the late Julius von 
Sachs. 
Tue American Book Company announces the early appearance of “A 
laboratory manual in practical botany,”’ by Charles H. Clark, Principal of 
Windsor Hall, Waban, Mass. 
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for an English translation of Pfeffer’s 
“Physiology,” by Dr. Ewart, to be published by the Clarendon Press. A 
French translation is also to be published in Paris. 
MR. Jouy W. HARSHBERGER has published an ecological sketch of the 
vegetation of the Yellowstone hot springs in the American Journal of 
Pharmacy for December 1897. 
THE IssvE of Photogravures of American Fungi, by C. G. Lloyd, has 
reached number 22. The last two numbers show fine reproductions of 
Lehio “a Americana Pk., and Calvatia celata Bull. 
Dr. Guta Istvanrrt, chief of the botanical section of the Hungarian 
ational Museum at Budapest, and privat-docent in the University, has been 
= ‘0 the professorship of botany in the University of Klausenburg. 
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Ae A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the late Dr. J. E. Humphrey is published in 
- Hopkins University Circular 17: no. 132, Nov. 1897, prepared by J. S. 
“ngsley and B. W. Barton. A bibliography is appended, containing thirty 
titles, “xtending from 1886 to 1896 
ie Kempe, a wholesale merchant of Stockholm, has established a fund of 
Bae Kroner (about $40,000) for the foundation of a professorship and an 
ute of plant ecology in the University of Upsala. Dr. A. N. Lundstrém, 
“ent, has been called to the chair. 
Nate MITTED to make announcement, at the proper time, of the death of 
to oe Bolander, whose collections on the Pacific coast have done so a 
ese known the flora of that region, He had been a resident of Portland, 
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Ser for Some years, where he died August 28, 1897. 
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