NEWS. 
Dr. M. TREvs, director of the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, has beta 
elected a member of the Royal Society of London. 
Mr. H. G, TIMBERLAKE, instructor in botany in the University of Mut | 
gan, has accepted a corresponding position in the University of Wisconsin. 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, with portrait, of the late Edward Lewis Stu 
tevant is published by C. S, Plumb in the tenth report of the Missouri Bota _ 
ical Garden. 
Mr. Ernst A, Bessey has been appointed assistant in the a 
Vegetable Physiology and Pathology of the United States Department 
Agriculture. 
M. Ep. PRILLIEUX, the eminent French phytopathologist, has zs 
elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, in the room t 
late Charles Naudin. 
PROFESSOR W. A, SETCHELL and other botanists of the va t 
California are about to leave on an expedition to study the flora of the t 
tian islands. — Science, June 23. : 
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PROFESSOR P. H. Rots has been appointed professor of botany 4 
Clemson College and botanist to the Agricultural Experiment Station ®— 
South Carolina, to succeed Dr. A. P. Anderson. a. 
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PROFESSOR Henry G. Jesup, for twenty-two years professor of botany” 
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., has resigned, and Mr. G. T. Moore 
Harvard University, has been appointed instructor in botany. 
THE PROPRIETORS of Nature announce that they are about to reise 
Sowerby’s English Botany, third edition with supplement, containing ~— 
tions and life size figures of every British plant, hand colored. YS 
varies from 16 to 19 guineas, according to binding. : - 
THE INSTRUCTORS and fellows of the University of Chicago ee : 
received botanical appointments for the coming year are as follows: io | 
W. Caldwell, professor of botany, State Normal School, Charleston, Ill; Fe 
G. Coulter, assistant in charge of botany, Syracuse University ; Florent 
Lyon, assistant in botany, Smith College; Dr. W. D. Merrell, an 
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