372 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
Miss FreDA DetMeRs, formerly botanist to the Ohio Experiment Station, 
lately teacher of botany in the Columbus North High School, has been appointed 
instructor in botany in the Ohio State University and has already assumed the 
duties of that position. 
A BRIEF biography of the late Professor Lto ErrerA has been distributed, 
containing, in addition to an appreciative notice of his life and work, a fine like- 
ness in photogravure, and a bibliography numbering 168 titles—a marvelous 
output, considering its high quality, for a man only 47 years old. 
Dr. D. S. Jonson, Johns Hopkins University, is spending April and May 
in Jamaica at the Cinchona station of the New York Botanical Garden. Dr. 
ForrEST SHREVE, of the same university, is spending a year at the same station 
in work on the physiology and ecology of the forest of the Blue Mountains. 
ER CRONE, assistant in the Botanical Institute of the Royal Agri- 
Salvnad College at Poppelsdorf, near Bonn, returned from a journey in Spain 
ill with typhus, from which he died on the 23d of February last. He had already 
published some recent studies on a cause of chlorosis and was prosecuting further 
work in chemical physiology. 
THE EDITOR of Flora and Sylva, having issued three volumes in serial form 
at less than cost, has become convinced that it does not appeal to a sufficient 
number of readers to justify its continuance as a monthly magazine. Hereafter 
it is to appear as a yearly volume, but otherwise precisely as heretofore. The 
next volume will appear in the autumn. 
THe Marine Brotocicat Station of the University of Washington, which 
is located at Friday Harbor, Washington, will open for its next season June 25 
and will close August 5. The station is supplied with a steamer for transporta- 
tion and deep dredging and offers good advantages for biological work, together 
with the pleasures of camping and tramping. @Professor Bruce Fink, Iowa 
College, will have charge of the botany. 
Proressor Huco De Vries opened the co of spring lectures at the New 
York Botanical Garden on April 21st by an ress upon “The correlation 
of characters in plants.’’ Other lectures in thi§/course will be given by W. A. 
Morrit_, ArtHuR Hotticx, L. M. UNDERWO6oD, C. S. GAGER, MARSHALL 
A. Hows, G. V. Nasu, H. H. Russy, D. T. Doveat, and N. L. Britton. 
INsTRUCTORs in botany at the Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn Insti- 
tute located at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, for the summer of 1906 are 
Dr. D. S. JoHNson, in charge of cryptogamic botany, Dr. E. N. TRANSEAU, 
in charge of plant ecology, and Mr. H. H. York, associate in botany. The lab- 
oratory will be open during July a August, the courses beginning July 5, and 
continuing six weeks. | 
