NEWS. 
M.J. IstvaNFFY has been appointed Professor of Botany at the Univer- 
sty of Koloszvar. 
PROFESSOR E. ZACHARIAS has been appointed director of the botanical 
garden at Hamburg. ; 
_ Dr. Epvarp STRASBURGER has been elected a foreign member of the 
‘Maional Academy of Sciences. 
M. 0, MATTIROLO, of Bologne, has been appointed Professor of Botany 
ad Director of the botanical gardens at Florence. 
DR. R. A, HARPER, of Lake Forest University, has been appointed 
hrofessor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin, to succeed Dr. Charles 
-R Barnes, 
Dr. Tomas W. Kirk, late chief conservator of the forests in nae 
“aland, and long a most indefatigable investigator of the flora of that 
Sand, is dead. 
5 ARICH MERCHANT of Stockholm, M. F. Kempe, has given to the gia 
‘“Yabout $40,000 to found a chair of “biological botany,” to be occupied by 
da. Lundstrém, 
. the 
MOFESsoR D. W. PENHALLOW has published as a reprint a 
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Roy. Soc. Can. an interesting “Review of Canadian Botany,” ext 
from 1800 to 1895. The bibliography contains 47° titles. 
Og GINTL, of Prag, Bohemia, intends establishing a botanical exchange 
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», "the autumn. Lichens, Hepatic, Musci, and Pteridophyta © 
= Pe, and Spermatophyta of central Europe, will be offered. 
gland, who has under- 
RT, 33 Berkeley st., Liverpool, En s to send 
— J. Ewa 
keto translate Pfeffer’s Physiologie into English, desires author 
[ey Of their works that the literature may be cited to et P 
‘ Evcene AUTRAN has published (Bul Herb. Botss. 6 : 81-84. ta 
testing sketch of the botanical career of Nicolas Alboff, who 
| * his recent death was botanist for the Museum de la Plata, 
. Alboff was practically the only botanist who had . wee 
fe with the trans-Caucasian region of his native im iain 
romus florae Colchicae was the fruit of extended travel and co 
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