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86 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
BENJAMIN H. SMITH has been elected director, John W. Harsh 
recorder, and Stewardson Brown curator of the botanical section of 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for the ensuing year. 
PROFESSOR F. LAMSON-SCRIBNER, Chief of the Division of Agrostology 
the Department of Agriculture, has been given charge of the Bureau 
Agriculture to be organized in the Philippines. He will sail with his family 
February 1.—Sczence. 
Mr. K. Fuyjut, assistant in botany in the Imperial University of Toy 
phology and cytology. After stopping for a brief visit to the botanical 
laboratories of the University of Chicago, he left directly for New York and 
sailed for Germany. 
Mr. D. G. FAIRCHILD, who is government expert in plant introduction, 
is on his way to Ceylon and southern India, expecting to return to China 
during the summer. He is seeking to discover useful plants ee 
_ grown in America. It is an interesting fact that Mr. Bryan Lathrop, 0 
cago, who is responsible for these excursions, occupies the unique position 
a man who is spending his money to assist his government in botanical 
_ ‘THE NATURALISTS of the central states at their recent meeting 
cago determined to form a permanent organization, and a committee 0 
een the two societies, and to report at the next meeting of the 
. zations, which is to be held at Washington in January, 1903. The com 
include two botanists, Dr. a M. Coulter and Dr. William Frelease” 
ane and abileaan of. Ellis and Everhart’s Fung? Columbian. , 
_ effort is promised to make this continued publication of high scienti™ 
There will ae no ce “Db, e and .. eas but a o ae 
Tt will he sansa 
variation and geographical Sen, to reissue a species on the sa! 
when it comes from widely separated regions. It is expected | 
centuries: will be issued each year, each issue being limited to seventy 
: 
_ THE FOLLOWING person be been a ok ‘ee 
2 ‘reorganized Rotanisches Centralblatt : Dow. Campbell, morph 2 
Chamberlain, cytology ; D. ay MacDougal, physiology ; G G. T. : 
D.P. Pen thallow, paleontology ; H. von Schrenk, fungi; Willi 
lL epenss In order - the work of the American boa of 
