NEWS. 
r Mr. Cyrus A. KiNG, formerly of Summerville, Mass., has been appointed 
_ instructor in botany in Indiana University. 
R. Witson Smiru, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), instructor in Mc- 
Master University, Toronto, during the past year, has just been promoted to 
the full professorship of botany in that institution. 
Dr. Oscar Loew, late of the Department of Agriculture at Washing- 
fon, has received and accepted a call to become again the professor of 
 4gricultural chemistry in the University of Toékyé. He sailed October 8. 
: - B. M. Duaear, assistant cryptogamic botanist of the Agricultural 
_ Experiment Station and instructor in botany in Cornell University, has 
returned from a year’s study in Germany and has been promoted to an assis- 
tant Professorship. 
PROFESSOR Dr. A. B. FRANK, director of the biological section of the 
Imperial Sanitary Bureau, formerly director of the institute for plant physi- 
in the Royal Agricultural School at Berlin, and author of a well-known 
text-book of botany and many physiological papers, died on September 27, at 
the age of 62. 
_ ABBE A, B. Lanexors died at St. Martinville, La. on August 1. His 
7 long and indefatigable study of the flora of Louisiana was prosecuted in such 
yt as could be obtained in the course of his parish duties. He has sup- 
lied material most liberally for the study of specialists in all groups, and ot 
_ ane has been used for many new species which he discovered. His cryp- 
‘ogamic Collections were probably left to the Catholic University at — 
: "gton, to which several years ago he gave his phanerogamic plants. 
bio UNDERSIGNED requests all foreign botanical writers to send to him a 
dd be ‘ach of their publications, as far as possible, and especially reprints 
_ Rals ong articles published in proceedings, transactions, and pert 
: ical ; learned societies, This request is made in’order that foreign = 
“oT may be reviewed promptly for Just’s Botanischer Jahresbe- 
aay bringing the same to the early notice and general use of all 
coe tad ROFEssor Dr. K. SCHUMANN, Botanischer Museum, Berlin, W. 
: “eg FOLLOWING report of the sixth annual meeting of the Botanical 
America, which was held in New York City, June 26 to 28, 1900, 
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