| oe AMERICAN FERN JOURNAL 
Recent elections of interest: 
President of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science, Dr. Charles E. Bessey, profes-_ 
sor of botany and dean at the University of Nebraska. 
President of the Botanical Society of America, 
Professor W. G. Farlow, of Harvard University. 
President of the Torrey Botanical Club, Dr. Henry | 
H. Rusby, professor of botany and dean at the New 
York College of Pharmacy. 
Mrs. M. A. Noble, of Inverness, Fla., whose herbaria! 
