NEWS. 
DURING THE RECENT MEETING of the British Association at Cambridge, th 
university conferred its doctorate of science on Professor ADOLF ENGLER and 
Sir W. T. TutseLron-Dyer. 
Proressor Juttus WIESNER and Dr. Lroprotp PortHEm, of Vienna, 
recently visited the University of Chicago on their way to the Yellowstone National 
Park; the former to study the light relations of plants, the latter the algae of the 
hot waters. 
THE DAILY PAPERS announce the death of Dr. Ruporpa A. Paruiprt, the 
eminent German botanist, who has for more than half a century devoted his 
energies to the development of scientific work in Chile, especially in connection 
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M. A. Curysier, of the University of Toronto, and later Fellow in the 
University of Chicago, has been appointed senior assistant in the Department of 
y of Harvard University. -For the past summer he has been conducting 
ecological field-work for the Maryland Biological Survey. 
THE PRELIMINARY program of the eighth international geographic congress, 
which convened in Washington, September 7-10, contained an announcement 
of a section for biogeography. In addition to papers by American plant geogra- 
phers, announcement was made of papers by Professor FLAHAULT, of Montpellier, 
Dr. Drug, of Dresden, and M. Curisten, of Bern. 
AT THE SUMMER CONVOCATION (September 2) of the University of Chicago 
the degree of Ph.D. was conferred upon three candidates in botany. The names 
. the recipients and the subjects of the theses are as follows: W. J. G. LAND, 
A morphological study of Thuja;” W. B. McCartum, “Regeneration and 
polarity in plants;” R. B. Wvyutr, “The morphology of Elodea canadensis.” 
THE INSTALLATION of Lanston monotype machines in the University Press 
= enabled the publishers to make notable improvements in the typography of 
current volume of the Boranicat Gazerre, to which we direct the attention 
our subscribers, It will also be noticed that as the cost of composition has 
ieee poe te prices quoted for separates are 20 per cent. lower than 
PROFEssoR N L 
- 4. Britton and Dr. J. N. Rose, having completed their 
monograph of the N J g 
orth American Crassulaceae, have undertaken a study of the 
Central oa Dr. Rose will spend considerable time in field work, especially in 
meetin Mexico, where the Cacti are in inextricable confusion. 
es brought together first in New York and Washington large collec- 
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