NEWS. 
Dr. EpuARD ZACHARIAS has been called to the directorate of the botan- 
ical garden at Hamburg. 
THE KNIGHT'S CROss of the Austrian Order of Leopold has been con- 
ferred upon Professor Dr. Julius Wiesner. 
Mr. J. G. LucHMAN has been appointed Government Botanist of Vic- 
oria, the post so ably filled for many years by the late Baron Ferdinand von 
Mueller, 
PROFEssoR L. H. BAILEY, of Cornell University, sailed foe Eumops - 
month. The length of his stay remains uncertain. He is stopping at pres 
ent in Munich. 
FROM Science we learn that Messrs. A. & C. Black will publish the lec- 
tures given by Dr. D. H. Scott at University College, London, last year 
under the title of “ Studies in fossil botany.” 
PROFESSOR ALFRED J. MCCLATCHIE, formerly of the Throop gee 
nic Institute, Pasadena, Cal., has been appointed professor of Agn 
and Horticulture in the University of Arizona, at Phoenix. 
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Dr. Rupotr A. Puriippt, for many years director of ieee this 
Museum of Santiago, Chili, has been obliged to retire from the duties 0 
post by reason of advancing years. He is now in his ninetieth year. 
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THE CURRENT NUMBERS (169 and 170) of Die pater and the 
Samilien are devoted to a continuation of the Musci, by Carl - a 
Dacryomycetinez, Exobasidiinez, and Hymenomycetinee, by F. 
Dr. D. S. Jonson, Instructor at Johns Hopkins pees 
charge of the botany at Cold Spring Harbor during — ee pele 
offered in « cryptogamic botany,” “ phzenogamic botany,’ and acne of 
PROFESSOR JOHN MAcoUN has published in the ew Ottawa” a 
(11 : 193-204. 1898) the third part of his “ Cryptogamic ah numbers, and 
It contains a continuation of the mosses, which cover some 22 
also the liverworts, 30 in number. 
will have 
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AN ADDRESs on “The province and problems of plant peer See 
Professor D. T. MacDougal, is published in Science (7: ein ently mi 
is a clear and pungent statement concerning a field of work pe 
understood, even by teachers of botany. eat 
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