NEWS. 
Mr. ALFRED W. BENNETT, Lecturer on Botany at St. Thomas’ Hospital, ff 
London, has been appointed editor of the Journal of the Royal Microscopical a. | 
Society, to succeed Professor F. J. Bell. . 
AS WE ARE GOING to press the death of Dr. Julius Sachs, the eminent 
physiologist, is announced, having occurred at Wiirzburg, May 20. The ) 
GAZETTE hopes soon to publish a biographical sketch, prepared by Dr. Fritz 
Noll. 
Dr. J. N. Rose has gone to Mexico for a summer of collecting. He left 3 
with Dr. Palmer. Later at Mazatlan he will meet Mr. E. W. Nelson, and 
Washington for Guaymas the last of May, where he will spend some time 
together they will cross the mountains into Durango and Jalisco. 
vines observed in 1895’in California, and known in France as fol/etage. The oe 
leaves wither and drop off in hot weather, without apparant preliminary se 
symptoms. The cause appears to be connected with the supply or movement 
of water in the plant, but no exact study has yet been devoted to the subject. 4 
Dr. Emity GREGory, Prcfester of Botany i in Barnard College, died at her | — 4 ' 
home i in New York City, April 21. The name of Miss Gregory is a familiar 4 j 
‘one to botanists, both as author and teacher, and the announcement of her 
death, at the very height of her activity, occasions widespread sorrow. The 
is glad to be ae - i one of her last contributions, a review 
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