NEWS. 
Dr. A. F. BLAKESLEE has been appointed recently upon the botanical staff 
of the Philippine Commission. 
PROFESSOR JoHN M. Coutrer has been elected an honorary member of the 
Royal Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 
Dr. A. B. RENDLE has been appointed Keeper of the Department of Botany 
in the British Museum (Natural History). 
Dr. C. F. Mittspaucu, Field Columbian Museum, is spending three months 
in Europe, chiefly in the investigation of museums. . 
Proressor Dr. Frrprano Cavara has been appointed director of the Botan- 
ical Garden of Naples in succession to the late Professor DELPINO. 
Mr. W. R. Maxon, U. S. National Herbarium, has just spent two months in 
Costa Rica collecting plants for the New York Botanical Garden. 
Dr. F. Rosen has been advanced to the position of professor of botany and 
director of the Institute for Plant Physiology at the University of Breslau. 
THE INFORMATION is just published that during 1903 there were 1,352,548 
visitors at Kew Gardens; and during 1904 the number increased to 1,579,666. 
Tue AcapeMy oF Scrences in Munich has made a grant of M2500 to Dr. 
Rosz, curator of the Botanical Museum, for zoological and botanical investiga- 
tion in Central America. 
NG HIS PRESENT VISIT to the United States, Professor Huco Dr VRIES 
will deliver lectures at the summer session of the University of California and also 
at the University of Chicago. 
AT THE RECENT Franklin Bicentenary at Philadelphia, the University of 
Pennsylvania conferred the degree of doctor of laws upon Professor Huco 
EVRIES, who was present to deliver an address. 
Dr. Lester F. Warp, for twenty-five years the paleobotanist of the United 
States Geological Survey, has left the ranks of professional botanists by accepting 
the position of professor of sociology in Brown University. 
IN THE RECENT DISASTER at San Francisco the building of the California 
Academy of Sciences was destroyed, containing the very valuable collection of 
Californian plants. It is reported that the types were saved by the heroic efforts 
of Miss Atice Eastwoop. 
Dr. E. N. Transeau, Alma College, Michigan, has been appointed a mem- 
ber of the staff of the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor. 
He will work at evolutionary problems from the ecological side. 
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