NEWS. 
Dr. Ira D. Carpirr, Columbia University, has been appointed professor 
of botany in the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. 
Dr. Max K6rnickE, University of Bonn, has received the Buitenzorg grant 
of the German government for 1906-7 and left for this station August 29. 
Dr. C. A. J. A. OupEMans, the mycologist, emeritus professor of botany in 
the University of Amsterdam, died recently at Arnhem at the age of eighty years. 
Dr. D. H. Campsexz, Stanford University, has returned after an absence 
of a year, some of which was spent in South Africa and the Botanical Gardens 
at Peradeniya and Buitenzorg. 
Mr. Leroy ABRAMS, of the Smithsonian Institution, formerly instructor in 
botany in Leland Stanford University, has been appointed assistant professor 
of systematic botany in the University. 
Dr. Brapiry M. Davis will spend next winter in Cambridge, Mass. His 
‘immediate work will be the completion with Mr. BERGEN of a laboratory and 
field manual to accompany the Principles of Botany which has recently appeared 
from the press of Ginn & Company. ‘ 
THE GRANTS made for scientific research at the York meeting of the British 
Association include the following botanical grants: Physiology of heredity, 
430; South African cycads, £35; Botanical photographs, £5; Structure of 
fossil plants, £5; Peat moss deposits, £7; Marsh vegetation, £15. 
THE AUTUMN couRSE of public lectures announced by the Field Museum 
of Natural History, Chicago, contains two botanical titles as follows: October 20, 
“The century plants, and some other plants of the dry country,” by Dr. 
WiLtram TRELEASE; November 17, ‘Some phases of plant distribution,” by 
Dr. J. M. Greenman. 
Count OswaLp pe KERcHove DE DENTERGHEM, who upon the sudden. 
death of Professor Lio ERRERA was appointed president of the International 
Botanical Congress to be held in Brussels in 1910, died on March 20, at the age 
of sixty-two. He was president of the Royal Society of Agriculture, and of the 
Botanical Society of Gand, a senator, and ex-governor of Hainault. 
AT THE University of Chicago, Dr. W. G. Lanp has been promoted to an 
associateship, and Mr. L. L. BURLINGAME has been appointed assistant in mor- 
Phology. Dr. FLorENce Lyon resigned at the close of the summer quarter, 
and shortly thereafter was married to Mr. S. VINCENT Norton, of Akron, Ohio. 
. The number of students registered for research work in the autumn quarter is 
the largest in the history of the department. 
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