NEWS. 
Our ASsOcIATE, Dr. Fritz Noll, has been promoted to an assistant pro- 
fessorship in the University of Bonn. 
M. GeorGEs VILLE, Professor of Vegetable Physiology at the Museum 
(Paris), died February 22, aged 63 years. 
PROFESSOR TEODORO CARUEL has retired by his own desire from the 
active duties of the professorship of botany in the University of Florence. 
M. Gaston BonNIER, Professor of Botany at the Sorbonne, has been 
elected member of the Academy of Sciences in place of the late Mr. Trécul. 
Dr. C. von ETTINGSHAUSEN, Professor of Botany at the University of 
Graz, well known for his paleobotanical work, died February 1, aged 61 
- years. 
PROFESSOR CONWAY MACMILLAN has published “ Notes for teachers on 
the geographical distribution of plants” in the first number of Journal of 
School Geography. 
é Dr. L. JuRANYI, professor of botany and director of the botanic garden 
: and institute of the Royal University of Hungary, died at Abbazia on Feb- 
ruary 27, in the sixtieth year of his age. 
A GOLD MEDAL has been bestowed on Professor Jakob Eriksson of Stock- 
a, holm by the Royal Swedish College of Agriculture in recognition of his 
cas < studies into the life history of grain rusts. 
Mr. E. P. SHELDON, formerly connected with the University of Minnesota, 
nee has undertaken the exploration of the Blue mountains of Oregon, under a 
: commission. from the National Herbarium. 
THe GrRMAN GOVERNMENT is aket to appropriate two million dollars 
- ishment of the Bot: arden of the University of Berlin and 
Me d tk pharn ceuti 1 iabockeaty. 
AT THE MEETING of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, held on the 
of plants in spring to meteorological conditions, in which were 
odie ie deductions drawn from a series of observations made at the Mis- = 
be cee ohiorem, canpccscieet back to. _ 
—. April 5, Mr. H. C. Irish presented a paper on the relations of the ‘ 
