NEWS 



Dr. Percy Groom has been appointed lecturer in botany at the North London 

 Polytechnic. 



Dr. C. Detto of Leipzig, known for his treatise on the theory of adaptation 



and for other ecological studies, is dead. 



Mr. Oakes Ames, North Easton, Mass., has presented his collection of living 

 orchids to the New York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. N. L. Brittox, N. Y. Botanical Garden, has been elected an honorary 

 member of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 



Dr. a. a. Lawson (Chicago), recently of Stanford University, has been 

 appointed assistant in botany at Glasgow University, to succeed Mr. Q-vvynne- 

 Vaughn. 



Harvard University received in June last a bequest of $50,000 to be used 

 in connection with the Gray Herbarium. It is known as the Sarah E. Potter 

 endowment fimd, 



Mr. R. p. Gregory has been appointed lecturer in botany at Cambridge 

 Universit}*, to succeed Mr. A. W. Hill, who has become assistant director of the 

 Royal Garden at Kew. 



Professor \Vim.\M Bateson, Cambridge University, during his recent 

 visit to the United States, lectured at the Brookhm Institute of Arts and Sciences, 

 and at The University of Chicago. 



Dr. Hans Fitting, privat-docent at the University of Tiibingen, has received 

 for 1907 the stipend of the German government which provides for a visit to 

 the Buitenzorg (Java) botanic garden. 



Dr. J. Reynolds Green, lately professor of botany to the Pharmaceutical 

 Society of Great Britain, has been appointed to the Hartley lectureship on plant 

 physiolog}^ at The Univeisity of Liverpool. 



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A NEW B0T.4N1C.4L joxiRNAL has been established at Stockhlom, with the 

 title "Svensk Botanisk Tidskrift." It is published by the Swedish Botanical 

 Society, the editorial conunittee being O. Rosenberg, K. Bohlin, G. Lagerheim, 

 N. S\-edelil^, and R. Sernanber, with Rosenberg as editor. Four parts will 

 be issued each year, the subscription price being 15 kroner. Two parts for 1907 

 have appeared, containing about 300 pages. 



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