NEWS. 
DurRING 1905 Kew Herbarium received in gifts over 16,000 sheets from 
about one hundred persons and institutions, and purchased nearly 7,000 sheets. 
RaymonD H. Ponp, Northwestern University, has been awarded a research 
scholarship at the New York Botanical Garden for six months, beginning on 
October 1. 
THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT of the Universitv of Illinois has purchased the 
herbarium of GEorce D. McDona tp, of Peoria, Ill. It contains about 12,000 
specimens.— Science. 
VERNON H. BLACKMAN, for ten years in the Department of Botany of the 
British Museum, has resigned this position to become Lecturer in Botany at 
the Birkbeck Institute. He also holds a lectureship at the East London College. 
In Botanisches Centralblatt (102 : 367. 1906) there is published a short 
biographical sketch of the late Professor H. MARSHALL Warp, prepared by 
Professor S. H. Vives; and another notice appears in the Kew Bulletin (1906: 
281), by L. A. Boonie. 
AN APPRECIATIVE NOTICE of the life and work of the late C. B. CLARKE 
appears in Bulletin de l’ Herbier for September 1906, prepared by CASIMIR Dee 
CANDOLLE. Another biographical sketch of CLARKE, unsigned and including 
bibliography, is published in Kew Bulletin (1906: 271-281). 
In Journal oj Botany for October 1906 there appears a biographical sketch 
of WiLt1AM Mirren, the bryologist, prepared by W. B. Hemstey, and accom- 
panied by an excellent portrait. He died July 27, 1906, in his eighty-seventh 
year. The same number also contains a portrait of RoBERT BROWN. Another 
sketch of Mirren by Helmsley is published in Kew Bulletin (1906: 283). 
A GENERAL ACCOUNT of the work of Section K at the York meeting of the 
British Association is published in Nature of October 4. There were three 
appointed discussions upon the following topics: Some aspects of the present 
position of paleozoic botany, opened by D. H. Scorr; The nature of fertilization, 
opened by V. H. Backman; The phylogenetic value of the vascular structure 0 
seedlings, papers being read by a number of botanists whose names are identified 
with this phase of work. .- : — 
WITH THE first part of volume 96, issued late in March, the publication © 
Flora passed into the hands of the well-known house of Gustav F ISCHER. Here- 
after the volumes will be enlarged to at least 560 pages, without increase In price, 
and the designation of Erganzungsbande will be abandoned. Fortunately they 
were always numbered consecutively with the others, and so the superfluous 
~ name made little bibliographic confusion. No reviews of literature are to appear 
in future. Articles are to be restricted in length as a rule to 48 pages, and for 
this the editor clears his desk by getting in the tenth of his Archegoniatenstudien 
as the leader of the new volume, a paper of over 200 pages! 
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