NEWS 



J. B. Farmer 



Chronicle. 



oble, at the age of fift>-six years. 



nnounced of Dr. P. Lackmann, professor of botany 



Del.\croix 



(< 



Insti- 



national agronomique," died at Paris, November 2, 1907 



HE COUNCIL of the Geolorical Societv of T.nnrinn has awarded the Murchison 



Mr. A. C. Seward, professor of botany in t 

 LxTDwiG JosT, professor in the Agricultural 



Graf zv Solms -Laubach 



upon his retirement as professor of botany and directo 



The M\cmill.\x Company announce a book by Dr. B. :M. Duggar, Cornell 

 University, entitled The physiology of plant production. As the title implies, it 

 IS primarily an application of plant physiology to the requirements of agriculture 

 and horticulture. 



Dr. Forrest Shreve, associate professor of botany in the Woman's CoUege 

 of Baltimore, has accepted an appointment in the Department of Botanical 

 Research of the Carnegie Institudon, and will enter upon his duties at the Desert 

 Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona, at the close of the academic year. 



At the Chicago meeting of the American Association, the foUowing officers 

 of Section G were elected: H. M. Richards (Columbia), vice-president; H. C 

 Cowles (Chicago), secretary for a term of five vears. The Botanical Society 

 otf America elected the foUowing officers: W. F. G.^xong (Smith), president; 

 D. S. Johnson (Johns Hopkins), secretary (continued). The American Society 

 oi Naturalists elected as its president D. P. Penhailow (McGiU). 



Tim report of the director of the ^lissouri Botanical Garden for 1907 con- 

 tains the following items: The number of visitors during the year was I35r497» 

 bemg the largest number in any year excepting the year of the Worid's Fair. The 

 incorporated additions to the herbarium were 35,876 sheets. Among the uq- 

 wcorporated material are 20,000 specimens of Texan plants collected by 

 l^mDHEiMER between 1849 and 1851. The herbarium, so far as now mounted, 

 con tarns 595,143 specimens. The Hbrary now contains 58,156 books and pamph- 

 lets, besides 77 manuscript volumes. 



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