NEWS. wa 
Dr. B. M. DuGGar of Cornell University has been elected a member ol 
the German Botanical Society. E. 
Dr. H. Amsrony, private docent in the University of Leipzig, has been 
called to the assistant professorship of botany in the University of Jena. 3 
THE Division of Vegetable Physiology and Pathology has secured a table 
at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole for the use of its sia” 
during the summer months. 4 
BoTAny, a text-book for schools by Professor L. H. Bailey, is announced : 
by the Macmillan Company. It is stated that “this book has all the popular 
features of the old time text-book — organography, morphology, elementary 
anatomy, and a flora—but it presents them in a new way.” 
Dr. HERMANN VON SCHRENK is continuing his work for the Division 
Vegetable Physiology and Pathology on the diseases of forest trees. As 
result of the work of last year two bulletins have been prepared and eh 
_ going through the press. Dr. von Schrenk is at present on the Pacific 
where he will remain for several months collecting information and a 
for more extensive work later. pe 
Mr. M. A. Careron, of the Division of Vegetable Physiology @ 
Pathology, has completed the installation of the cereal exhibit of the 
ment of Agriculture at the Paris Exposition, and is now in southern 
collecting grains, which will be distributed by the Section of Seed 
Introduction. A number of the varieties of cereals obtained by 
during his former trip to Russia have proved of value. : 
EARTH AND AIR is the title of a new monthly journal devoted 
ology. The general purpose of the journal, as indicated by the 
and by the contents of the first number, is so pertinent to the work oF 
and students of plant diseases, that the attention of botanists sh : 
toit. In the first number, Mr. Albert F. Woods, of the Division of : 
Physiology and Pathology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, pase 
ing “ Weather and plant diseases.” The yearly subscription PMY” 
dollar, and the office of publication is Penn Yan, N 
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