NEWS. 
PRoFEssoR W. PFEFFER has been elected a corresponding member of the 
Vienna Academy of Sciences. 
F. M. Rotrs has been appointed professor of botany and horticulture in the 
University-of Florida, at Lake City 
R. S. WrtitAms, who has been collecting in the Philippines for the New York 
Botanical Gardens, has lost his collections of four months by fire in a hotel where — 
he was making his headquarters. 
PRoFEssor N. L. Britron, director of the New York Botanical Garden, 
received the honorary degree of D.Sc. from Columbia University in connection 
with the recent celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its 
foundation as King’s College. 
BERNARD RENAULT, the well-known paleobotanist at the Museum of Natural 
History in Paris, died October 16, 1904, at the age of sixty-eight years. His 
studies of the conspicuous vegetation of the Coal Measures have been of the 
greatest possible service to anatomists and morphologists. 
Proressor W. A. KELLERMAN, of the Ohio State University, will spend the 
first three months of the coming year in Guatemala. He expects to traverse the 
country from east to west, and to spend considerable time in the Andes Mountains. 
The purpose of the trip is to collect parasitic fungi, and incidentally to execute 
some small botanical commissions. 
THE FORMER students of Professor CHARLES E. BEssEY who are connected 
with the Office of Vegetable Pathology and Physiology, Department of Agricul- 
ture, have had an enlarged copy of his photograph framed and presented to the 
office. The portrait was unveiled by Dr. E. A. BEssey, at a gathering of the 
office staff on November 28. Miss Carrte Harrison presented the picture, and 
appropriate remarks were made by Messrs. Woops, WEBBER, and SHEAR. 
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