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NEWS. 
PRoFEssor J. C. ARTHUR spent the greater part of January at the New 
York Botanical Garden in a study of Uredineae. 
Proressor B. M. Duccar has been spending the winter in research at the 
Botanical Institute at Montpellier, directed by Professor CH. FLAHAULT. 
THE Bulletin de l’Académie Internationale de Géographie Botanique an 
nounces the limitation of leading articles to thirty-two pages. We hope the 
movement will become general among journals. By proper condensation an 
author can say all he is entitled to say on one subject in such a space. 
Dr, Jesse M. GREENMAN spent some six weeks in Yucatan and adjacent 
Mexico collecting plants for the Field Natural History Museum, of whose her- 
barium he is assistant curator. He had a violent attack of malarial fever which 
interfered seriously with his work, but he has returned in good health and with 
fair collections. 
LAST SUMMER after lousy the Vienna Congress, Professor GrorGE F. 
ATKINSON spent some time in the vicinity of Nice, Paris, and especially in the 
Jura mountains in the vicinity of Pontarlier, studying the fleshy fungi. He 
collected over 300 species, made photographic studies, and preserved material 
for morphological investigation. 
THE VIENNA ConcREss nominated as presidents of the Committee of Organ- 
ization for the Brussels Congress of 1910 Lfo ERRERA and URAND. On 
account of the lamented death of Professor ERRERA the Association internation- 
ale des botanistes has named Senator Count Osw. DE KERCHOVE DE DEUTER 
GHEM <s his successor. M. Emite” DE, WILDEMAN has been made general sec- 
retary. 
Mk. J. B. Extis, whose taxonomic work on North American fungi is known 
the world over through his numerous publications and the important sets of 
exsiccati issued by him and Mr. EveERHARD?, died at his home in Newfield, 
New Jersey, December 30, 1905. A biographical sketch of Mr. Exzis was 
published in this journal in November 1890. His herbarium and library have 
been for some years the property of the New York Botanical Garden. 
PROFESSOR WILLIAM WHITMAN BAILEY will retire from the faculty of Brown 
University at the close of the present academic year. He has been connected 
with the University for nearly twenty-eight years, twenty-five of them as pro- 
fessor of botan’. For some years he has been suffering from ill health and 
feels it wise not to carry longer the burden of regular classroom work. Yet 
he will retain close connection with the University, and advise in many of its 
affairs. 
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