NEWS. 
Mk. ABeL A, HunTeR has been appointed botanical collector for the 
University of Nebraska. 
Tar University of Geneva has conferred the degree of Ph.D. honoris 
fausa upon M, Casimir de Candolle. 
Dr. Cart E. CorrENs has been advanced to the assistant professorship 
of botany in the University of Tiibingen. 
Dr. WILHELM FIGDOR has been appointed docent for anatomy and 
physiology of plants in the University of Vienna. 
HouGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co.’s fall announcements include a book entitled 
Animal and plant lore, by Mrs. Fanny D. Bergen. 
Dr. J. M. JANSE, of the botanical garden at Buitenzorg, Java, has been 
*ppointed professor of botany in the University of Leiden. 
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Ds. K. GiesennaGEn, of Munich, has received from the governme 
sibvention of 4/6000 for an investigating tour to Malacca. 
Dr. L. HILTNER has been appointed director of the hectetoe 
Rory of the biological division of the Imperial Bureau of Hygiene in bertin. 
PROPESSOR GEORGE W. Marrtrn, teacher of biology in the sep Hb 
*, ool, has been appointed professor of biology in Vanderbilt Univer- 
‘ wy, Nashville, Tennessee, . 
Pit PeNGLe has returned from his fiteentli year in the collection 
4 ' Mexican plants. His health has not been good, but, as usual, : deieesi 
mith * collection of choice plants. 
q Dr, Pav Kuru, of Kiel, has returned to his home from his pene 
—. the world, He has brought with him abundant ecological ma 
a Java, Japan, and California. arg 
a RECENT FIRE which destroyed the entire stock of Jacob spe es 
»M Lincoln. Neb., all the unsold copies of Pound and Clements 
abhy of Nebraska were burned. 
: Iniver- 
hy ress N. BERLESE, heretofore professor of botany in the U nile 
= * Camerino, has been appointed professor of natural sciences 
‘ * Lyceum, D t 
r. J. B. DeToni has been appointed to the position 
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