NEWS. 
Mr. ALBERT H. Trow has been granted the degree D.Sc. by the Uni- 
versity of London. 
PROFESSOR ERNST EBERMAYER has resigned the professorship of forestry 
in the University of Munich. 
Mr. W. L. JEPSON has been promoted from the instructorship to be asso- 
ciate professor of botany in the University of California. 
Mr. R. K. Beatrigz has been appointed instructor in botany in the 
Agricultural College of Washington, located at Pullman. 
Dr. JoHN M. CouLTER will be away from his post at the University of 
Chicago for nine months. He is spending the winter at Washington, D.C. 
MR. GRANT ALLEN, author of several popular books and papers on botani- 
cal subjects, and more lately widely known as a writer of acknowledged 
fiction, died October 25, in his fifty-first year. 
Mr. H. H. Hume, assistant in the departments of botany and horticulture 
in the Iowa Agricultural College, has been elected horticulturist and botanist 
of the Florida Agricultural College at Lake City. 
THE EXTRAORDINARY delay in the publication of the October number 
was due to the illness of the present managing editor from October 13 to 
November 4, and the absence of the senior editor. 
Two SCHOLARsuIPs for garden pupils in the Missouri Botanical Garden 
- will be awarded by the director, Dr. Wm. Trelease, before April first next. 
Applications must be in his hands not later than March first. 
Mr. A. A. HELLER, of Lancaster, Pa., will start for Porto Rico on a col- 
lecting trip about January 1. He expects to bring back a large and interesting 
collection of all classes of plants. The cryptogams of that island should be 
an especially interesting study. 
PROFESSOR Dr. PauL KNurtH, whose recent return from a tour around 
the world, including a somewhat prolonged stay in this country, we lately 
chronicled, died in Kiel on October 30, at the age of forty-five. His death 
will be felt as a severe loss to ecology. ; 
Mr. J. W. Duvet, of the Agricuitural Experiment Station at Wooster, 
Ohio, has been appointed to the D, M. Ferry Botanical Fellowship in the 
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