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hereafter be known as the Eaton Professorship of Botany. It may 
recalled that this professorship was founded and endowed bya relative and 
by friends of Professor Eaton in the year 1864, although it has never bet 
distinguished by a name. . The extensive and valuable botanical library and 
herbarium which Eaton accumulated have been donated to the university by 
his family, and Mrs. Eaton has placed in the botanical laboratories a bromt 
tablet to her husband’s memory, and, in addition, has founded. a gradualt 
scholarship in botany.—£rythea, for August. 
PROFESSOR BESSEY has been called upon to serve as the Acting Chance 
will make it necessary for him to be relieved of mu 
in the laboratories and lecture room, the regents have elected Dr. August 
Rimbach (Ph.D., Jena 1887) ad interim Instructor in vegetable physiol) 
and pathology. Dr. Rimbach is known as the author of many board 
papers in the Berichte der deutschen botanischen Gesellschaft and other Ger 
man botanical journals. He was a pupil of Stahl, Detmer, 
and Sachs, and was Professor of Botany in the University of Cuenca, 
dor, from 1889 to 1894. He has traveled extensively in South Amen® 
engaged in the study of flora of tropical and alpine regions. 
Mr. J. N. Rose has just returned from a three months’ trip t 
Mexico, bringing about goo species of dried plants, many living i“ 
cially agaves, and plant photographs. His collection is not so 1atg® 
rich in new species as the one of 1897, but it will doubtless help ue 
many puzzles which have long worried botanists dealing with Mexical 
Besides rediscovering Echinocactus Parryt, he collected several , 
lost or hitherto unknown to American herbaria. About 200 
Calientes, Jalapa, City of Mexico, Oaxaca, Cuernavaca, Pachut 
Monte, Guadalajara, Tequila, San Luis Potosi, an . 
from which many types have beentaken. Mr. Rose also made : 
Mr. Rose was accompanied by Dr. Walter 
Museum, 
