NEWS. 
CuesTER A. Dartinc, Albion College (Mich.), has been appointed assistant 
in botany at Columbia University. 
Dr. ALBERT MANN, Department of Agriculture, has been appointed pro- 
fessor of botany at George Washington University. 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH, with portrait, of the late C. B. CLARKE is published 
in Journal oj Botany for November, having been prepared by D. Prarn and W. 
H. Butss 
Proressor L. H. Bartey, Cornell University, was elected president of the 
Association of Agricultural Experiment Stations at the recent Baton Rouge 
meeting 
R. A. C. SEWARD, formerly university lecturer, has been elected to the 
professorship of botany at Cambridge made vacant by the death of Professor 
H. MarsHatt WARD. 
PROFESSOR ROLAND THAXTER, Harvard University, has returned from his 
year’s leave of absence. A portion of his time was aah in South America 
and included a collecting trip to the Straits of Magellan 
THE DATE of publication of the November GazeTTE should have been given 
as November 30 instead of November 17. After the number was printed publi- 
cation was delayed by unforseen difficulties with the plates, due toa lithographer’s 
strike. 
IN CONNECTION with the recent quatercentenary celebrations of the Uni- 
versity of Aberdeen, honorary degrees were conferred on the following botanists: 
Casmutrr DECANDOLLE, Geneva; Huco DEVrirEs, Amste ; J. Martsv- 
MURA, Tokyo; and D. H. Scort, Kew. 
Ir 1s appropriate to call attention again to the limitations which the Editors 
have been obliged to establish for papers published in the GazeTTE. No article 
exceeding thirty-two pages is acceptable, except with the consent of the author to 
pay for the pages in excess of thirty-two, which will be added to the usual 
number 
THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, in its Yearbook for 1905, publishes a 
paper on the progress of forestry during that year. The year is regarded as “an 
epoch in the history of American forestry,” chiefly because during that year it 
“passed out of the stage of preparation and propaganda into that of actual work.” 
On February 1, 1905, the administration of the national forest reserves came 
under the Department of Agriculture, and by the end of that year an efficient 
system of forest administration was being inaugurated upon a hundred million 
acres of forest lands. : 
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