NEW: 
Dr. JULIA W. Snow has been appointed instructor in botany in Rockford 
College, Illinois. 
Mr. FREDERICK O. GROVER has been promoted to the professorship of 
botany in Oberlin College. 
Dr. RopNEy H. TRUE has been appointed lecturer in botany at Harvard 
University during the absence of Dr. George L. Goodale next year. 
PROFESSOR JOHN BRETLAND FARMER, of the Royal College of Science 
of London, has been selected by the Royal Society for election to mem- 
bership. 
THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION for the Advancement of Science, Art, 
and Education will hold its first assembly in connection with the Paris Expo- 
sition. In the long list of congresses, that of botany is announced for Octo- 
ber I to 6. 
Mr. CHARLES E. SMITH, one of the prominent botanists of Philadelphia, 
died recently. By his will the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 
receives his botanical library and herbarium, and one sixth of the estate, 
which is estimated at $500,000. : 
Two sets of Bailey's Cyclopedia of American Horticulture are being cut 
up and pasted on sheets in the economic herbarium of the Department of 
Agriculture. This will give a working list of desiderata for the cultivated 
plants of the United States. 
THE Last Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden (1: [no. 5] 295- 
449. pls. ro-12. 1900) contains the various reports for 1899. From then we 
learn that during the year the herbarium received accessions of specimens to 
the number of 70,000; and that over 4000 species and varieties of plants are 
under cultivation in the various plantations, 172 families and 1057 genera 
being represented. 
Dr. B. M. Duaear, of Cornell University, has received the appointorent 
from the Smithsonian Institution, to the research table at the Statione Zod- 
logica, Naples, Italy, and has already entered upon his work there. He has 
been in Europe during the past year, has visited England, Sweden, Germany, 
and Italy, and has been studying at Leipzig and Halle until his departure 
from the latter place for Naples. He expects to return to Cornell Univer- 
Sity in July. 
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