NEWS. 
Peeece Votney M. SPALDING, of the University of Michigan, is . 
‘doing botanical work in Florida.— Science. ee 
_ Geo. H. SHULL, recently of the University of Chicago, has received an 
appointment as assistant in the U. S. National Herbarium. 
__ MRs. Mary L. Pursirer Ames, the well-known Californian botanist, 
died March 20, at her home in San Jose, California, at the age of 57. ~ 
: Mr. Ermer D. Merritt, assistant in agrostology in the U. S. Depart- 
— Agriculture, has accepted an appointment in the Philippines. 
- MarIon ANDREWS (University of Indiana) recently received his : 
e from the University of Leipzig, with the grade summa cum laude. 
PROFESSOR CHARLES R. BARNES sailed for Europe March 22, to she 
mine nine months, during which time he will visit the ee — : : 
Von Tuseur, chief of the biological division, the German Depart : 
oe been appointed professor of forestry in the — 0 | 
: Max a Privat Docent in botany, in ‘the University of 
‘has received an additional appointment as Privat Docent in the _ 
en Akademie of Bonn-Poppelsdorf. 
‘BEssry, of the University of Nebraska, is to give 
on botany in the Colorado Springs Summer Sod 
‘in & Colorado Springs, Colo., in July and Angust.— Science 
OR W.H. BREWER, the well-known professor « of Agricultu : 
| Scientific School of Yale mihi £2 will retire from the 
er 
J ei agriculturist of the Washington ‘Agee : 
“iment Station at Pullman, has succeeded F. Lam: 
in the Department of Agriculture, a De 
Fi ebruary 23 for Manila. : 
bial ‘BIOLOGICAL, LABORATORY at Cold Spring — the ‘ 
1 Johns Hopkins University; Ecology, by 
Univer and ——— by Neee 
