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be properly coordinated Professor Trelease has been asked to act as chair- 
man of the editorial board with the assistance of Dr. von Schrenk as general 
secretary. The central position of St. Louis and its excellent library and 
exchanges recommend it as the place most suitable for the editorial head- 
quarters. 
The British board of editors is as follows: Miss Edith Barton, algae; 
George Massee, fungi; Anthony Gepp, archegoniates; B. Daydon Jackson, 
phanerogams; J. Bretland Farmer, cytology ; S. H. Vines, physiology; W. H._ 
Lang, morphology, D. H. Scott, paleontology. 
WE NOTE the following list of calls or promotions from the American 
Naturalist: DR. Lujo ADamovic, known for his excellent work in phyto- 
geography, to be professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at 
elgrade; Dr. A. H. R. BULLER to lecture in botany at the University of 
Birmingham; Dr. FREDERIC E. CLEMENTS to an adjunct professorship in 
botany at the University of Nebraska; Mr. GEoRGE H. Lyman to be 
professor of botany at Dartmouth College, in place of Dr. G. T. Moore, who 
's now with the Department of Agriculture; W. J. PALLADIN, the well-known 
ph Ysiologist, to be professor of physiology and plant anatomy at the Uni- 
versity of St. Petersburg; Mr. JouN J. THORNBER, formerly associated with 
35 Botanical Survey of Nebraska, to be professor of botany at the University 
of Arizona ; Dr. Oscar Uxtworw, who has for so many years been associated 
with the Botanisches Centralblatt, to be librarian of the Royal Library, Berlin, 
also chief of the German Bureau for International Bibliography. 
THE THIRD annual meeting of the botanists of the central states was 
at the Hull Botanical Laboratory of the University of Chicago, Decem- 
pales January 2, inclusive. Since there has been as yet no organization 
Pe han ay no complete independent registration of the botanists. 
ae atk os ta “— Professional botanists, however, were present, and attend- 
hn je — varied from fifty to eighty. Even during the last hours, — 
one expected Hat many would have left the city, more than fifty 
Present. ony Somer the institutions represented were the following: The — 
ea sts — Francis Ramaley; the University of South Dakota, 
Sa a anions homie of Minnesota, Conway MacMillan, = - 
Allen; Beloit eas isconsin, R. A. Harper, H. G. Timberlake, C. E. 
J - Mitchell ; the University of Iowa, T. H. Macbride ; Upper lowa Uni- 
ber 
| sis + Missouri Botanical Garden, William Trelease; University of 
oats ae hs 1 : : 
ae ens College, J. B. Overton ; Blackburn University, Charles Robert- = 
= Mottier, a estern ze College, L. M. Umbach: University of Indiana,D. M- 
_ * A. King; Purdue University, Stanley Coulter; University of 
