NEWS. 
PROFESSOR EDUARD TANGL, ee of Czernowitz, died recently at the 
age of fifty-seven years. ee 
Proressor Leo Errera, director of the Botanical Institute of the University 4 
of Brussels, died August 1 at the age of forty-seven years. : 
THE TOTAL APPROPRIATION for the U. S. Department of Agriculture for the 
year 1905 is $5,944,540. This includes $1,337,740 for the Weather Bureau. : 
Dr. RoBpert BRAITHWAITE completed on his eighty-first birthday his mono 
— the British Moss Flora, on which he has been engaged for twenty-five 
years 
Repaid W. Berry is studying the fossil flora of Maryland. His new 
address is in care of the Maryland Geological Survey, Johns Hopkins University, 
Baltimore. 
Tae New York Botanical Garden has purchased the entire mys i 
collections of Mr. Grorcr Masser, on which largely was based. his _work ‘ 
British Fungi. : 
It WouLp Nor be amiss for the editor of the Zeitschrift ji P a 
heiten to revise the list of collaborators on its title page. One at least 
dead these ten years. 
WE LEARN from the Journal of Botany that Mr. GEORGE Mivesay has 
compelled by failing health to resign his curatorship in the department Se 
of the British Museum. 
AN ADMIRABLE SUMMARY of the relation of plant physiology. to oi 
ment of agriculture is presented by ALBERT F. Woops, tee 
ologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry, in the Yearbook of the U > Je} 
of Agriculture for 1904 (pp. 119-132), just issued. 
THE Iratan Botanical Society devoted a special session at its 
meeting in September to the memory of Professor F. of 
died last May. The meeting was held in Vallombrosa, where ; 
formerly professor. A eulogy was pronounced by Professor — 
earlier his pupil and then his assistant. 
PavL Parry (Berlin) announces that the third edition of the the 
Pflanzenkrankheiten is in preparation by Professor Dr. P 
associated with him Professor Dr. G. Lrnpav and Dr. L. Ren. Th ; 
respectively the plant and animal parasites which occasion diseases 
the original author, Dr. Soraver, confining himself in this edition © 
due to conditions of weather, position, soil, and cultivation. 
will appear in three volumes : 
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