1897] EDITORIAL 49 
Ir Is NEEDLEss to explain to American botanists the positions and 
special fields of our foreign associates, as their names are very familiar 
to all readers of current botanical literature. The list of names and 
official positions is as follows: Proressor Dr. Apotr ENGLER, 
Director of the Royal Botanic Garden and Museum, and Professor of 
Botany in the University of Berlin; Dr. Fritz Nout, Privatdocent in 
Plant Physiology in the University of Bonn; Dr. H. MarsHaLt Warp, 
F.R.S., F.L.S., Director of the Botanic Garden, and Professor of 
Botany in the University of Cambridge ; Dr. Leon Guicnarp, Pro- 
fessor of Botany at l’Ecole supérieure de Pharmacie, Paris; Castwir 
Der CanDo_ te, Geneva, Switzerland ; Proressor Dr. JoANNES Baptista 
De Tont, Professor of Botany in the Royal University of Padua; Dr. 
EuceN WarMING, Director of the Botanic Garden, and Professor of 
Botany in the University of Copenhagen; Dr. Veir BRecHER Witt- 
ROCK, Director of the Botanical State-Museum, and of the Botanic 
Garden and Horticultural School of the Royal Academy of Sciences, 
Stockholm; Dr. JinzO Matsumura, Director of the Botanic Garden, 
and Professor of Botany in the Science ti a of the aceon hia 
versity, Tokyo, La sop - : : 
