NEWS. 
Miss JuLia SNow, Ph.D. (Ziirich) has been appointed Instructor in Botany 
in the University of Michigan. 
Mr. Joun DonNELL SmirTH sailed for Europe about the middle of March, 
expecting to be absent until the middle of October. He will divide his time 
between Spain and England. 
JaMEs BATEMAN, whose monumental work on the orchids of Mexico and 
Guatemala is one of the sights of the great libraries, died November 27, 1897, 
at his home in Springbank, near London, at the age of 86. 
THE NEW Journal of Applied Microscopy has begun a series of articles 
on “Representative American laboratories.” The first ones to be described 
are those of Cornell University, in the February number of the journal. 
Six Joserx HOOKER’s great work on the Flora of British India has at 
last been completed, a work which has been in mind and in hand more or 
” since 1848, when the author made a botanical investigation of the 
Himalayas, 
Dr. Joun M. CoutTeEr, of the University of Chicago, and Dr. Douglas 
Campbell, of Leland Stanford University, have recently been elected 
“sociate fellows in the section of botany of the American Academy of Arts 
om Sciences, Boston. 
H, 
_, NITH THE BEGINNING of the year the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 
Clb passe under an entirely new editorial management. The organization 
Editor, Lucien Marcus Underwood ; Associate editors, Carlton 
rence Curtis, Byron David Halsted, Arthur Hollick, Marshall Avery 
as Francis Ernest Lloyd, and Anna Murray Vail. 
“Rene FRICE LISTS of native ornamental plants from the iia 
ha rd Gillett, of Southwick, Mass., and F. H. Horsford, of Chasen: os 
1. fecently come to hand. These dealers, as well as a number of others, 
dle by aly large number of interesting plants, that are often — 
or illustrative material, If teachers knew how cheaply and easily suc 
tte 48 Drosera, Dioncea, Sarracenia, etc., as well as asters, solidagos, pais 
aie obtained, and how little trouble they are to grow !n the gar ie 
Can it ls probable that classes would oftener have the opportun! Ae 
Wing plants. 
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