NEWS. 
W. A. Murritt has succeeded F. S. Earle at the New York Botanical Garden 
as assistant curator in charge of the fungi. 
PRroressor F. L. Stevens has been elected president of the North Carolina 
Academy of Science for the ensuing year. 
CoLumsia University has recently conferred the honorary degree of Sc.D. 
upon Professor Hugo DeVries, of Amsterdam. 
EpWwarpD W. Berry has been elected secretary of the Torrey Botanical Club 
in the place of Professor F. S. Earle, who recently left for Cuba. 
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN at its recent Jubilee conferred the honorary 
degree of LL.D. upon Professor W. G. Farlow, of Harvard University. 
D. T. MacDouaat, director of the laboratories of the New York Botanical 
Garden, has been advanced to the position of assistant director of the institution. 
Dr. C. C. Hossevus left Berlin on June 22 for a collecting expedition in Siam. 
The sets of plants obtained will be sold from the Royal Botanic Museum of 
Berlin. 
A. F. BLAKESLEE of Harvard University has received a grant from the Car- 
negie Institution to spend next year in Europe continuing his mycological inves- 
tigations. 
JoHN Macovn, the veteran botanist of the Canadian Geological Survey, will 
spend this summer in the Rocky Mountains of Canada making extensive collec- 
tions of cryptogams. 
AT THE RECENT annual meeting of the Linnean Society (London) the supple- 
mental charter was laid before the fellows, one item of which gives authority to 
elect women to membership. 
Laetit1A Morrts Snow received the degree Ph.D. at the June convocation 
of the University of Chicago, the subject of her thesis being ‘The effect of 
external agents upon the development of root hairs.’ 
MEL T. Cook, formerly in charge of botany at DePauw University (Green- 
castle, Indiana), has been appointed plant pathologist at the Experiment Station 
of Cuba, newly established at Santiago de las Vegas. 
THE UNIveRSITY OF GOTTINGEN has awarded its Otto Wahlbruch prize, of 
the value of $3000, to Dr. Wilhelm Pfeffer, professor of botany at Leipzig. The 
prize is awarded for the most prominent contribution to science during the past 
two years.—Science. 
Mr. L. B. Exuiort, editor of the Journal of Applied Microscopy since 
beginning in 1898, has severed his connection with the Bausch & Lomb Biel 
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