NEWS 



THE 



About 20,000 sheets were added to the Kcw Herbarium during 1907, 7000 of 

 which were purchased. 



R. II. Lock, Cambridge University, has been appointed assistant director at 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya, Ceylon. 



Dr. Charles J. Chamberlain, University of Chicago, spent tlic month of 

 March in Mexico in further study of Dioon and Ceratozamia. 



viEETiNG of the British Association in Dublin next September, Francis 

 Darv^^^ will be general president, and F. F. Blackmax president of the section 

 of botany (K). 



The Swedish Academy of Sciences has granted to Professor C. F. O. 

 NoRDSTEDT I GOO kronor ($270) for the purpose of printing a supplement to his 

 Index Desmidiaccarum. 



Dr. Max Kornicke, privat-docent in the University of Bonn, has been 

 appointed to succeed Professor L. JoST as the professor of botany in the Agricul- 

 tural College at Bonn-Poppelsdorf. 



Professor Sergius Xawaschin, of the University of Kieff, completed on 

 March 3 last twenty-five years of service as a teacher. The Society of Naturalists 

 of Kieff on that day elected him an honorarj' member and arranged for further 

 celebration of the occasion. 



Dr. J. N. Rose, of the U. S. National Herbarium, left Washington :March 17 

 for an extended trip through Texas, New :Mexico, Arizona, southern California, 

 and northern Mexico, for the purpose of studying Cactaceae in the field. His 

 headquarters are at the Desert Laboratorj' at Tucson, Arizona. 



" L' Association Internationale des botanistes" will hold its next meeting 

 at the University of Montpellier, beginning June 7, 1908, the meetings of standmg 



^eing announced for the preceding day. IMost attractive excursions 

 are being planned. Members who intend to be present are urged to notify Pro- 

 fessor Fl-Ahavlt as soon as possible. 



committees 



HERBARIt 



Botanical Garden, through the generosity of Mr. Axdrkvv Carnegie. It is 



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botanists the greatest interest of this conecuon i^ 

 . ^f t,.^^ cr^^r^l•rT^^nc nf tmnical Amerfcan and South 



can species. 



BiOGR^APHiCAL SKETCH, with portrait 



Rhodora 



(10:1-9. 1908), prepared by F. S. Collins. A list of his botanical writings 

 includes log titles. Mr. Da\i;xport's contributions to the Botanical G.azette 



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