NEWS. 
WitH THe December number 1899, completing the fifteenth volume, 
Natural Science announces its suspension on account of inadequate financial 
support. 
Miss Fanny E. LANGpon, formerly instructor in botany in the University 
of Michigan, died at Ann Arbor, October 21, 1899, after an operation for 
appendicitis. 
FROM Science we learn that Dr. H. M. Richards, instructor in botany in 
Barnard College, has been compelled by ill health to relinquish his courses 
and has sailed for Europe 
R. B. L. Rosinson, the curator of the Gray Herbarium, has been 
a. to a new chair established in Harvard University, the Asa Gray 
professorship of systematic botany. 
ABOUT 200 volumes from the library of the botanist David Hosack have 
been presented to the New York Botanical Garden. They are in excellent 
condition and some of them are very rare. 
Dr. C. V. Piper, of Washington Agricultural College, has been granted 
a year's leave of absence, which he is spending in work upon the Washington 
flora at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University. 
R. W. G. FARLow, of Harvard University, and Miss Lilian Horsford, 
of Cambridge, Mass., were married on January 10. Dr. Farlow will receive 
the congratulations and best wishes of a host of botanical friends. 
Messrs. Henry Hott & Co., announce for immediate publication Atkin- 
son’s Lessons in Botany and Barnes’ Outlines of Plant Life. Both books 
are simplified and abbreviated editions of earlier books by the same authors. 
PROFESSOR J. W. TouMEY, of the University of Arizona, will spend half 
of the present year at Washington on the staff of the Division of Forestry. 
During his absence his work will be carried on by Dr. A. A. Tyler, who has 
been appointed assistant botanist. 
PROFESSOR L. F, HENDERSON, of the University of Idaho, has been 
8ranted leave of absence from January 1900 till the opening of the next 
college year. He will study the greater part of the time at the Gray Herba- 
rium of Harvard University, and at Cornell University. 
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