NEWS. 
THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT has conferred the degree of doctor of science 
on Mr. C. G. Princie, keeper of the herbarium of the university —SCcIENCE. 
. Henry S. Conarp, professor-elect of biology in Randolph-Macon 
College, has resigned to accept an appointment as professor of botany in Iowa 
College, at Grinnell, to succeed Professor Frnx. 
Proressor R. B. WYLIE, professor of biology in Morningside College, has 
been appointed assistant professor of botany in the University of Iowa, where he 
is to have especial charge of the work in plant morphology. 
THE APPROPRIATION for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 
beginning July 1, 1906, aggregates $9,932,940. Among the items of interest 0 
botanists are the following: Bureau of Plant Industry, $1,024,740; Forest Ser- 
vice, $1,017,500; Agricultural Experiment Stations, $974,860; Division of 
Publications, $248,520; Bureau of Soils, $221,460; Biological Survey, $52,0; 
Library, $25,880. 
For Two YEARS the State Weather Service of Maryland has been carrying 
on a Botanical Survey of the State under the direction of Dr. FORREST SHREVF, 
Johns Hopkins University. During the present summer two parties are 1? 
the field: one under Dr. SHREVE, working in the Appalachian valley; and ~ 
under Mr. FREDERICK H. Biopcerr, Maryland Agricultural College, working 
in the Blue Ridge region. 
Tue Orrice of Experiment Stations of the United States Department of 
Agriculture has undertaken the preparation of a complete list of the books written 
by agricultural college and experiment station men in the United States. As a 
heritage from the Paris and St. Louis expositions the Office has a set of about 
two hundred books by experiment station men. A list of these and of a few 
others by the same authors has been prepared, and assistance is requested 1m 
completing the list. The Office desires to get copies of such books as are not 
now in its collection, so far as this is possible. 
--THE Association internationale des botanistes decided last year at Ven 
to form an international organization to advance the interests of agriculture as 
horticulture by the selection, introduction, and distribution of plants Ue 
84 rue de Grenelle, where it is expected to organize for this purpose @ ge 
section of the Association and to devise means for attaining promptly te 
in view. M. Patipre L. pe Vitmorin is organizing this meeting, which pee 
promise of being successful, inasmuch as the cooperation of many savants prae 
ticiens and botanical gardens is already assured. 
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