NEWS. 
THOMAS COMBER, the well-known wives asia botanist, died at Blackpool 
wary 24. 
Dr. B. M. DuGGar, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has been elected 
rofessor of Botany at the University of Missouri. 
Dk. A. JAKowatz has been appointed Assistant at the Botanical 
Museum and Garden of the University of Vienna. 
THE ApvisERS IN Borany for the Carnegie Institution are F. V. Coville, 
. L. Britton, Gifford Pinchot, and J. M. Macfarlane. . 
ACCORDING TO Science, 83,000 acres of forest land have been OE 
the State Forestry Commission in central Pennsylvania. ey ee 
THE DEGREE OF LL.D. has been conferred upon B. T. eesthinens: Diree- 
f the Bureau of Plant Industry, by the University of Missouri, 
A NEW EDITION of Oliver's translation of Kerner’s ‘Pflanzenleben is 
unced by Blackie & Son, London, at a considerably reduced price. : 
7 ). von Schweinitz, with a portrait, 
oy C. L. Shear, is published in the March number of Plant World. 
ca. ‘texts, died April 27, at White Plains, | N. 
NST A. BESSEY, of the Bureau of Plant 
'ESSOR A, ZIMMERMANN, until, recently | at Buitenzorg,. bes: been - 
i logical station at eee sanere 
