NEWS. 
Dr. ROLAND THAXTER sailed for Europe late in June for about tw 
months’ absence. 
Dr. B. M. Davis is in charge of the botanical department of the Marit 
Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole during the summer. . 
THE Fern Bulletin for July publishes a sketch of Daniel Cady Eaton) 
Professor Setchell, accompanied by an excellent portrait. 
Dr. B. L, RoBINSON is now in Europe, where he will spend much of the 
summer examining types of American species in European herbaria, 
In Rhodora for June there appears a sketch of Edwin Faxon by . | 
George G. Kennedy, accompanied by an unusually well-executed porta 
; . icago, has 
Mr. A. C. Moore, a fellow in botany at the University of ei . 
been appointed professor of biology in South Carolina College, Co 
S. C., the state institution. 1 
Dr. P. B. KENNEDY, of the Division of Agrostology, U. S. mani 
Agriculture, has been appointed associate professor of botany aNC 
culture in the University of Nevada. 
Mr. GEORGE P. CLINTON, instructor in botany, University of Die 
a leave of absence for the year Igoo-I, to study at Harvard. His pis 
study will be the Ustilaginez and’ their allies. ae 
Dr. WALTER Busse, docent in the University of Berlin, i 
a journey through the steppes of German East Africa in search of t0™ 
and medicinally valuable plants and plant products. me ie 
PROFESSOR GEORGE L. GOODALE sailed in May for ei 
sabbatical year, and he will be away during the coming college y' 
work will be done by Dr. R. H. True and Mr. E. W. Olive. a a 
; ical ex 
Mr. M. L. FERNALD will spend two weeks of July in a hoe ee 
tion of Mt. Katahdin, Me., with J. F. Collins, of Brown aa 
J. R. Churchill, Dr. G. G. Kennedy, and Emile F. Williams, of Bost® 
Dr. H. C. Cowes conducted a class in field study of on 
the Tennessee mountains during June, He has been aie Cold Spt 
charge of the botanical work at the Biological Laboratory # c 
Harbor during the summer. . 3 - [ave 
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