NEWS. 
Dr. Enrico PANTANELLI has been appointed docent in botany at Rome. 
EMILE Boupier, the eminent mycologist, has been elected director of the 
Association internationale de géographie botanique for the year 1906. 
PRorEssor Dr. A. RicHTER has been appointed director of the botanic 
garden of the University of Kolosvar, the post recently vacated by the death of 
Professor V. BorsAs. 
A Portrait of Mr. Francts Darwin was lately presented to the botanical 
department of the prrsbrnc hs: of Cambridge, where he was for ‘many years.an 
active investigator and instruct 
PRoFEssor Huco De Vries ae sail for New York about’ April 1, to deliver an 
address at the bicentennial anniversary exercises in honor of BENJAMIN FRANK- 
LIN to be held in Philadelphia April 17-20, under the auspices of the American 
Philosophical Society. He expects to remain in this country two or three months. 
Dr. D. T. MacDovaat has resigned his position as assistant director of the 
New York Botanical Garden and has been appointed director of botanical 
research of the Carnegie Institute. Dr. B. E. Livincston has resigned his post 
as physiologist in the Bureau of Soils, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and 
Professor Francis E. Luoyp his chair in the Teachers College of Columbia 
University, to accept appointments as investigators on the staff of the Desert 
Botanical Laboratory, with Drs. CANNoNn and SPALDING. 
AFTER thirty years’ service Sir W. THIsELtoN-Dyer retired on December 
15 from the directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and was succeeded 
by Lieutentant-Colonel D. PRAIN, formerly director of the Botanical Survey of 
India, and superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. Mr. Dyer 
will remain at Kew till March 31 next, and till that date will continue to act as 
botanical adviser to the secretary of state for the colonies and as technical 
adviser in botany to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, as well as to take 
charge of India Office work. 
From THE Journal of the New York Botanical Garden we learn that Mr. 
R. S. Wittrams has returned from two years’ explorations of the Luzon, Jolo, 
and Mindinao, three of the Philippine Islands, bringing large and important 
collections of herbarium and museum material, estimated at ten to twelve 
thousand specimens, in spite of the loss of about three months’ collections by fire. 
R. J. N. Rose with an assistant, Mr. PAINTER, spent the summer in the 
arid districts of central and southern Mexico, collecting cacti, of which they 
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