Seer ee 
~<a ipcin 
ie 
NEWS. 
MACMILLAN AND CoMPANY announce for publication before Christmas a 
textbook on plant pathology by Dr. D. T. MacDoueat and F. S. Earte 
Proressor R. THAXTER, of the Cryptogamic Laboratory of Harvard Uni- 
versity, is spending his sabbatical year in a collecting trip in South America. 
Oakes Ames, R. C. Leavitt, and A. A. Eaton of the Ames Botanical Labor- 
atory, left October 10 for a period of study in British and European herbaria. 
Dr. Forrest SHREVE, Bruce Fellow in the Johns Hopkins University, sailed 
from Baltimore on October 13 for Jamaica, where he will spend the year in work 
on the anatomy and physiology of epiphytes. 
_ THE TWENTY-FIRST annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science was 
held at Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, December 1, 1905, under the 
Presidency’ of Joun S. Wricut. The program contained twenty papers on 
botanical topics. 
Proressor B. L. Rosrnson has returned to his duties at the Gray Herbarium 
alter spending several months in Europe, where he attended the Vienna Congress 
and made brief studies in various herbaria. Mr. M. L. FERNALD has been 
Promoted to an assistant professorship. 
Mrs. A. G. Heimer, of Helmer, Georgia, is prepared to send by mail smalt 
boxes showing the products of the cotton plant for school and home study. The 
box contains photographs of the flower, pod, and leaf; a ripe pod with seeds 
in situ; samples of seed after ginning, hulls, meal, crude and refined oil; ae 
4 miniature bale of cotton. 
Prorrssor W. A. KELLERMAN will leave before the holidays for Guatemala 
0 continue his mycologic studies begun there last winter. He reports a rich 
harvest of parasitic fungi and hopes to publish next summer some of the results 
Of the two seasons’ work. Several new species are on hand and special phases 
_ Of the subject are under investigation. Minor commissions of specialists will 
: _ gladly executed, so far as feasible; requests should be made immediately. 
Dr. J. C. ArtHur, of Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, is preparing 
- the Manuscript upon the plant rusts of North America for early publication in 
_ the North American Flora. As this is the first attempt to present the uredineous 
ie flora of North America with reasonable completeness, much difficulty is naturally 
_ “Xperienced in securing material enough to show approximately the geographical 
distribution of species. Any assistance, through the gift of duplicate specimens 
® the loan of herbarium sheets, will be greatly appreciated. The commonest, 
_ “Swell as the rarer species, are desired. 
AT THE Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona, Professor F. E. 
_ Liovn, of Columbia University, spent June and July in a continuation of his 
1905] 
479 
