NEWS. 
Dr. KIENITZ-GERLOFF has been called to a professorship in Weilburg. 
PROFESSOR F. A. HAZSLINSzKY, one of the well known Hungarian 
mycologists, died at Eperies, Hungary, on the 19th of November last. 
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of the late Henry Trimen, with portrait, appears 
in the Journal of Botany for December (1896), prepared by the editor, Mr. 
James Britten. 
A SECOND ISSUE of Bailey’s Survival of the unlike is about ready. A 
few minor alterations have been made and a fuller statement given to the 
concluding paragraph of the first essay. 
THE TITLE of “professor” has been conferred upon Dr. Karl Miiller, of 
Halle, the editor of Natur, and better known to American readers as the 
author of the Synopsis Muscorum, and many other works and papers on 
ology. 
A GARDEN SCHOLARSHIP is to be awarded by the Director of the Missouri 
Botanical Garden, Dr. Wm. Trelease, before April first. Applications must 
be in before wiarch first, and the preliminary examination will be held at St. 
Louis March 9. 
A REVISED EDITION of Wright's “Guide to the organic drugs of the U.S. 
Pharmacopeeia of 1890” has been issued by Eli Lilly & Co. of Indianapolis. 
It contains much additional material, and is of interest not merely to phar- 
macists, but also to botanists who are interested in the medicinal properties 
of plants. It may be had from the firm for a two-cent stamp, or, bound in — 
leather, for Loerie cents. 
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