NEWS oo 
euay is printed in the March number of the Journal of the New York Botanical 
Carden, 
PROFESSOR E. ZACHARIAS, formerly director of the botanic gardens in 
Hamburg, has been appointed director of the Government Botanical Insti- 
Hamburg, comprising botanical garden, museum, and laboratory for 
k. 
-Proressor B. D. HALSTED has been compelled to give up his work 
atime on account of illness, and as a consequence will not be able to give 
presidential address at the meeting of the Botanical Society of America 
Pittsburg. 
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CUMMINGS has been placed in charge of the 
department of botany at Wellesley College since the retirement of Professor 
Hallowell from active service, and all correspondence intended for the 
ment should be addressed to the former. 
PRoFEsson A. N. BERLESE, professor of botany in the a 
i, has been appointed professor of vegetable pathology in the school of 
€at Milan. He is succeeded by Professor G. e Deitoay, ers 
—" Camerino. 
é Seborischen Pfhlanzengeographie, revised and Sevag up to “ 
Paul Graebner, whose previous ecological studies jcaiat ne a 
work of this importance. : 
ELEVENTH SESSION of the Hopkins Seaside ee 
Stanford University, will begin June 9. | The following — 
be given by Dr. A. A. Lawson: een me _— 
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