NEWS. 
Dr. DAVID GRIFFITHS has been xe noe clited professor of botany in the 
University of Arizona, and also botanist to the Experiment Station. 
Dr. E. PALLA, privat-docent in the University of Graz, left home at the 
end of September for a long anticipated sojourn in Buitenzorg, Java. 
Dr. M. von RAciporsKI has been appointed professor of botany and 
director of the botanical gardens in the agricultural school at Dublaney, near 
Lemberg. 
A BOTANICAL SCHOOL is being erected at a cost of $20,000 in Schenley 
Park, Pittsburgh, being intended especially for teachers and classes from the 
public schools. 
PROFESSOR L. M. UNDERWOOD spent the summer in studying Ameri- 
can ferns in the British Museum, in the Kew Gardens, and in the Cosson 
Herbarium in Paris. 
Dr. N. L. BriTToN represented the New York Botanical Garden at the 
recent International Botanical Congress at Paris, and was also an accredited 
delegate from the U. S. Government. 
OF THE THIRTY names selected to represent America’s greatest men in 
the Hall of Fame of the University of New York only two are those of natur- 
alists. One of these is Asa Gray and the other J. J. Audubon. 
WE LEARN from Science that the Yale Forestry School has opened with 
an enrollment of seven regular students and seventeen from other depart- 
ments, the residence of the late Professor O. C. Marsh being used as a school 
building. The degree of Master in Forestry will be given to such students 
of the school as have previously received the bachelor’s degree from colle- 
giate institutions of high standing. 
MUHLENBERGIA is the title of a new journal of botany, whose initial 
number is dated November 10, and whose editor and publisher is Mr. A. A 
Heller. The publication office is Lancaster, Pa., and the subscription price 
is $1.00 a volume, the volume to contain not less than 150 pages. The journal 
is to be issued at irregular intervals, and the first number (8 pp.) consists of a 
_ list of changes in nomenclature by the editor. 
THE Journal of the New York Botanical Garden is designed a be 
chiefly an organ of communication with the members of the Garden organiza- 
tion (now numbering about a thousand), who are thus to be kept informed of 
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