NEWS. 
Dr. Cuartes J. CHAMBERLAIN has been elected a member of the German 
Botanical Society. a 
THE SIXTH session of the University of Montana Biological Station is 
progress at Flathead I.ake, Montana. : ‘ 
Proressor Dr. Gy. pr IstvANFri has been awarded the THorE prize by the 
Institut de France for his “ Etudes sur le rot livide de la vigne.” a 
Bureau of Government Laboratories of the Philippine Islands’ 
undertaken the establishment of a botanical garden at Lamao, across the bay 
from Manila. ' 
EMMANUEL DRAKE DEL CastTIL1Lo died at his Chateau de Saint-Cyran 00 
May 14, 1904, at the age of 48. He was formerly president of the Bol 
Society of France, and a well-known systematist. 
ARKIV For Boranik is the title of a new botanical publication, issued 
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm instead of the 
previous “Oefversigt” and ‘“Bihang till Handlingar,” which have been 
tinued. se 
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PROFEssor Crara E. Cumincs, of Wellesley College, has been gram ® 
sabbatical year, which will be spent in resting and studying the tropical pen 
Associate Professor FERGUSON will have charge of the department for the sc La 
Science. i 
Dr. WLapIsLaw RoTHERT, professor of botany in the University of 
is making a brief tour of the northeastern United States, in connection 
visit to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. He has had time - see ¢ 
botanical establishments at Washington, St. Louis, Chicago, New = 
Boston. 
PROFESSOR VoLNEY M. Spatprnc has resigned the he 
Department of Botany at the University of Michigan. He age 
work at the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at 
Correspondence pertaining to the department should be addresse bie 
F. C. NewcomBe. 5 ae 
THE CLARENDON Press announces that it is preparing to pie 
of SOLEREDER’s Systematic anatomy of the Dicotyledones by : zs we by Ha 
F. E. Fritscu, revised by D. H. Scorr; EICHLER’s Flower diagram’, by 
Garnsky, revised by I. B. BaLrour; Knurx’s Pollination of flow? if | 
mson and ArnsworTH Davies; and Warmino’s Plant § the 
translation of the last will be made from a new edition which 
preparing. It is hoped that the translation will appear si es 
new edition. The name of the translator is not given. 
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