[1 NEWS. 
Proressor H. MarsHaty Warp has been elected president of the Cambridge 
' Philosophical Society. 
lat Dr. J. F, GARBER (University of Chicago) has been appointed instructor in 
. f botany in the Yeatman High School of St. Louis. 
' j Mr. LutHER BurBANK, so well known for his experiments in plant-breeding, 
_» has been appointed a special lecturer at Stanford University. 
Be ¥ Dr. J. C. ArTHur has been appointed by the Botanical Society of America 
as its pen to the International Botanical Congress at Vienna. 
- Marre C. Stopes (Munich) has been appointed assistant lecturer and 
t Rie ae in botany in the University of Manchester, England. 
im /ELLESLEY COLLEGE has received $7200 from the ROBERT CHARLES BILLINGS 
f font the income of which is to be applied to the needs of the department of 
1 botan 
bf ae cas R. Maxon, of the U. S. National Herbarium, left Washington 
ir: " December 12 for Guatemala, to be gone until May. Primarily he is to be engaged 
{ ~ in cotton investigation. 
a PROFEssor N. Ono, of the University of Tokyo, has been visiting the botani- 
bal laboratories of the United States on his way to the University of Leipzig for 
research in plant physiology. 
ae _ C. R. Barnes, H. C. Cowtes, and C. L. SHEAR were Pee delegates 
4 rom the American Association for the Advancement of Science to the Inter- 
“ hational Botanical Congress at Vienna. 
gi, Mr. Francis Darwin who, upon his removal to London some months ago, 
- i retired from his position as Reader in Botany in Cambridge University, has 
| been succeeded by Mr. F. F. BLackman. 
dp 4 Dr. R. S. Woopwarp, dean of the faculty of pure science in Columbia Uni- 
' |, versity, was elected president of the Carnegie Institution at the meeting of the 
trustees held at Washington, December 13. 
un ; THE Roya Socrety of London has awarded the Darwin medal of 1904 to 
_ Mr. William Bateson, “for his contributions to the theory of organic evolution 
; 4 by his researches on variation and heredity. 
a A CONTROLLING INTEREST in The Plant World has been purchased by Pro- 
aft fessor F. E. Luoyn, of the Teachers College, Columbia University, the journal 
a, ‘ passing under his editorial management at the beginning of the new year. 
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