NEWS. 
De. CARL MEz has been called to a professorship of botany at the Univer- 
sity of Breslau. 
THe Kew Bulletin for January contains a complete list of Kew publica- 
tions from 1841 to 1895 inclusive. 
THE DEATH of Professor Dr. Alexander Batalin, director of the Imperial 
Botanical Garden at St. Petersburgh, is announced. 
Dr. WLADISLAW ROTHERT, Privat docent, has been called to the assist- 
ant professorship of botany in the University of Kazan. 
PRoFeEssor L. H. PAMMEL has distributed his first fascicle of Iowa plants. 
The others will be distributed as soon as the material is ready. 
Dr. CONSTANTIN VON ETTINGSHAUSEN, until 1896 professor of botany 
and paleontology in the University of Graz, died on the first of February. 
DURING THE YEAR 1896 the Royal Gardens at Kew were visited by 
1,396,875 io: the largest attendance upon any one day being 86,399 OD 
May 
A New botanical text-book by Dr. W. A. Setchell is announced by The — 
Eoalotd Company as in press, bearing the title Laboratory Practice for : 
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Beginners in Botany. 
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