NEWS. 
Dr. W. W. Row Leg, Cornell University, has been advanced to a full pro- 
sees of botany. 
R. C. F. HEGELMAIER, professor of botany at the University of Tiibingen, 
ae died at the age of 72 years. 
Proressor L. M. Unperwoop, Columbia University, has received the 
degree of doctor of laws from Syracuse University. 
Dr. Franz BucHENAU, the well-known monographer of Junaceae, died at 
Bremen, April 23, at the age of seventy-five years. 
THE GeRMAN Boranicat Soctety has offered a a of tooo marks for a 
monograph on polymorphism in the algae.—ScrENCE 
Dr. D. T. MacDovcat has been elected a foreign member of Hollandsche 
Matschappij van Wetenschappen, the Dutch Academy of Sciences. 
PROFEssoR Bruce Fink, the lichenologist, of Iowa College, has resigned to 
accept a professorship of biology in Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. 
R. FRIEDRICH CzaPEK, of Prague, has been appointed professor of botany 
and oe of the botanic garden and institute of the University of Czernowitz. 
PRoFEssoR GEORGE MACLOsKIE, Princeton University, has retired from 
active service, having been appointed Professor Emeritus. He has been in 
charge of the botany of that institution since 1875. 
BoTANICAL APPOINTMENTS confirmed recently by the trustees of the Ohio 
State University are as follows: Rospert F. RIGGS, assistant professor; 
FREDA DETMERS, instructor; and L. A. HAwxnns, fellow. 
PRrorrssor Conway MacMitran has resigned the professorship of botany 
at the University of Minnesota and will devote his attention to business. The 
Position is to be filled by promotion from the present staff. 
Proressor D. H. Scort’s presidential address before the Royal Microscopical 
Society, entitled “Life and Work of Bernard Renault,” is published in Jour. 
Roy. Micr. Soc. 1906: 129-145, with an excellent portrait. 
Howarp S. Rep, instructor in botany at the University of Missouri, has 
resigned his position to accept an appointment in the Bureau of Soils, United 
States ibaa og: of Agriculture. H. L. SHANtTz has been appointed to 
succeed him 
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