NEWS. 
Mr. WALTER R. Suaw has been appointed assistant professor of botany 
at Pomona College, Claremont, Col. 
Mr. A. I. Eriksson (Tufts College) has issued a catalogue of natural 
history books and authors’ separates which will be of interest to botanists. 
THE ANNUAL meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science will be held at Columbia University, New York, June 25-30, 1900. 
Titles and abstracts of botanical papers should be sent at once to the secre- 
tary of Section G, Dr. D. T. MacDougal, N. Y. Botanical Garden, N. Y. City. 
AccorDING To the Revue Bryologigue Dr. A. J. Grout, of the Boys High 
School, Brooklyn, N. Y., is intending to publish exsiccati of the pleurocarpous 
mosses of North America, “with the cooperation of the principal American 
bryologists.” The first set, of twelve numbers, has just appeared. The price 
is to be $7.50 per century. 
Tue LAWRENCE SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL of Harvard University has issued 
a preliminary announcement of a four-year course in landscape architecture, 
including botany in the first year, horticulture in the second, a study on plants 
in relation to landscape planting in the third and fourth years, and the 
infirmities of plants in the fourth year. 
THE FIFTH annual mid-winter meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club 
was held at the University of Vermont, January 26 and 27. Many papers 
of general as well as of local interest were presented and discussed. The 
following officers were elected : president, Ezra Brainerd ; vice president, C. 
G. Pringle; secretary and treasurer, L. R. Jones. 
PROFESSOR RYOKICHI YATABE, founder of the Botanical Society of 
Japan, and for ten years its president, was drowned September Io, ages 
Kamakura, where he was spending the summer. He studied in America 
and was the first professor of botany in the Imperial University 9 eegiont 
The December number of the Tokyo Botanical Magazine contains a fine por- 
trait of him. 
Dr. N. L. Britron asks the BOTANICAL GAZETTE to announce that 
pressure of work during the latter part of last year made it impossible at 
that time for him to bring his address as retiring president of the Botanical 
Society of America into satisfactory form for the usual publication. The 
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