NEWS. 
Dr. F. W. T. HunGER, Buitenzorg Botanic gee. goes to the University of 
Utrecht. 
Tue Dutcu cross of Orange and Nassau has been conferred upon Professor 
Dr. Juttus WIESNER. 
ProFressor Dr. G. HABERLANDT has bikes elected a foreign member of the 
Linnaean Society of London. 
Dr. Grorce T. Moore has resigned his position as physiologist and algolo- 
gist in the Department of Agriculture. 
Dr. E. ZEDERBAUER, formerly of the Botanical Institute of the University 
of Vienna, has been neha assistant at the Royal Forestry Experiment Station 
in Mariabrunn near Vienna 
Proressor Dr. R. v. WertsTEIN has been chosen president of the “Asso- 
ciation Internationale des Botanistes” for three years. He has also been elected 
a member of the Royal Academy of Science in Madrid and of the Royal Physio- 
graphic Society in Lund. 
Tue HEIRs of Professor Dr. EUGEN ASKENASY have set aside a fund of 10,000 
marks, the interest of which is to be devoted to “‘study-travels” of the members 
of the faculty of the University of Heidelberg, especially to the insufficiently paid 
docents, older doctors, or students of the colleges. The grants are to alternate _ ' 
regularly between botany and zoology. 
Tue Prusstan Rovat ACADEMY OF SCIENCE has made the following grants 
for botanical investigation: to Professor ENGLER for continuing work upon Das 
Pjlanzenreich, 2,300 marks; to Dr. E. BAUER, for investigations on hybrids, 
Biologische und morphologische Untersuchungen iiber Wasser- und Sumpige- sf 
ig 640 marks. a 
OGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of deceased members of the Deutsch. Bot. Gesells 
— in the Berichte (22: 10-83. 1905) as follows: A. MiLLarvEt by P. MAGNUS) 
Joser FReyn by V. ScHirFNER; FRrancors Créprn by L mete 
WESTERMAIER (with portrait) by S. SCHWENDENER; orttie 
B. Herct; W. J. Benrens by Ernst Kuster; Avcust ee ty H.R 2 
BACH; Kart ScHUMANN by G. VoLKENS; M. Stavs by J. BERNATSKY; 
Us Puruprr by Kart REICHE. 
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