NEWS 



Du. H. O. JuEL, formerly assistant professor, becomes professoi: of botany 

 in the University of Upsala. 



Me. L. L. Biirlingame, The University of Chicago, has been appointed 

 instructor in botany in Stanford University. 



Miss Alma G. Stokey, The University of Chicago, has been appointed 

 instructor in botany in Mount Holyoke College. 



Dr. Carlton C. Curtis, Columbia University, has been advanced from an 

 instructorship in botany to an adjunct professorship. 



Miss E. N. Thomas, University College, London, has been appointed head 



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has been appointed instructor in botany in Wellesley College. 



Dr. F. D. Heald, University of Nebraska, has been elected to a professorship- 

 in botany in the University of Texas, to succeed Dr. W. L. Br-\y, who has gone 

 to Syracuse University. 



Mr. H. Migliorato has undertaken to prepare a systematic dictionary of 

 plant pathology, and asks botanists to send their papers to him at the Botanical 

 Institute, via Panisperna 89B, Rome, 



Carl Waenstorf (Berlin-friedenau) announces for sale his large collec- 

 tion of Sphagnum, containing about 30,000 specimens from all parts of the 

 world, and also a very large number of annotations and memoranda. 



The twenty-eieth year of the professorship of Dr. Karl Goebel at the 

 University of Munich was celebrated on March 7. More than Bity botanists 

 were present, and Professor Goebel received a number of valuable presents 

 from his former students, and greetings from many universities. 



The committee in charge of securing a botanical foundation in honor of 

 Leo Errera announces that the necessary amount has been subscribed. The 



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Herbert F. Roberts, Kansas State Agricultural College, has received a 

 commission from the Kansas Experiment Station to inspect the wheat regions 

 of Southern and Central Europe during the coming summer. He mil visit Italy, 

 Greece, the Balkan states, and Hungary, and also the notable plant-breedmg 



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