eee NEWS. 
A CHAIR OF BACTERIOLOGY in the University of Edinburgh has been 
endowed by the will of Mr. Robert Irvine. a 
. PROFESSOR FLAHAULT, the well known botanist at Montpellier, in s 
_ been chosen Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. 
Dr. JOHANNES CHRISTOPH KLINGE, of the botanical gardens at i 
Petersburg, recently died at the age of fifty-one. 
Dr. C. S. BELLI, formerly of Turin, has been appointed profesor of 
botany and director of the botanical gardens at Cagliari. 
a Dr. F. Cavara, formerly of Cagliari, has been appointed —— 
ae botany and director ot the botanical gardens at Catania. 
aS os VERY INTERESTING AccounT of the palm trees of pa 
es has sent a party to the east coast ) 
She ‘pleas Dr. Kruuse i is the director of the - 
