NEWS. 
Dr. H. A. GLEAson has been appointed instructor in botany in the University 
of Tlinois. 
F. S. Earve has retired from the directorship of the Estacién Agronémica 
Central de Cuba. 
Dr. A. A. Lawson, Stanford University, has been advanced to an assistant 
professorship in botany. 
C. B. Crarke, the well-known English systematist, died at Kew August 25, 
at the age of seventy-four years. 
Dr. J. N. Rosr, United States National Museum, left August 1 for his 
sixth collecting trip in Mexico, being especially interested in the Cacti. 
PROFESSOR CHARLES FLAHAUT, Montpellier, has been elected an honorary 
member of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna.—ScIENCE. 
Mr. Joun G. Haut, Harvard University, has been appointed assistant in 
plant pathology in the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. 
DuRING 1904 the additions to the Kew Herbarium were as follows: 8000 
sheets presented by ninety persons and institutions; 4000 sheets purchased. 
Proressor C. R. Barnes, Dr. C. J. CHAMBERLAIN, and Dr. W. J. G. Lawn, 
University of Chicago, have spent the month of September in botanical work 
in Mexico. 
Dr. H. C. Cowzes, University of Chicago, will spend the autumn and early 
Winter in Florida, studying the everglades under a grant from the Carnegie 
Institution. 
Dr. A. F. BraKestrr has been appointed instructor in cryptogamic botan 
in Harvard University for the ensuing year, and will also give instruction in 
Radcliffe College. He has recently returned from two years study at Naples 
and Halle. 
IN COMMEMORATION of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its foundation, Sep- 
tember 31907, the German Botanical Society proposes to publish a Festschri/t 
of ahout 300 pages and 20 plates; and distinguished specialists, whether mem- 
FS or not, are asked to offer MSS. before January 1, 1997, to the Secretary, 
Professor Dr, C. MULter. 
THE DEATH or H. MarsHALL Warp, professor of botany at Cambridge 
University, is announced as having occurred August 26. He succeeded Profes- 
sor C. C. Basincton at Cambridge in 1895, and died at the age of fifty-two years. 
His work on plant diseases is well known, and the splendid new botanical building, 
which was the result of his tireless activity, had only been occupied for two years. 
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