80 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [anvary | 
Mr. R. P. Grecory, demonstrator of botany at Cambridge University, has 
been awarded the ey armen mir of the Renee for 1904, his thesis being | 
‘*The reduction division in pl redity.” 
physiology of here 
THE Botanical Society of America Pee as Officers for the ensuing year: 
president, R. A. Harper; vice-president, E. A. Burt; secretary, D. T. Mac- — 
DovcaL; treasurer, ARTHUR HoLuick; councillors, L. M. UNpERWoop, WM. | 
TRELEASE. ; 
Dr. Burton E. Livincston will sever his connection with the University 
of Chicago at the close of the winter quarter, having been appointed to the staff 
of the Bureau of Soils of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He will take up } 
his new duties at Washington on April r. 
ProFEssOR HENRY S. GRAVES, director of the Yale School of Forestry, has 
been commissioned by the Bureau of Forestry to do “inspection work” in the 
Philippines. During the winter his courses will be conducted by Professor B. E. 
FERNOW, formerly director of the Cornell School of Forestry. 
BEGINNING with this year and volume 18, the Beihejte zum Botanisch 
Centralblait which has attained an enviable reputation for the prompt publica- 
tion of original papers of a high grade, will be issued under the same edito 
Drs. Untworm and Kont, by a new publisher, GEorGE Tureme, of Leipzig. 
Hereafter the journal will be published in two sections, the first to cover anatomy, 
histology, morphology, and physiology; the second being restricted to taxonomy, 
phytogeography, and like topics. The price of each section is to be M 16. 
ALBERT GaAupry, the eminent paleontologist, has headed a subscription f 
the erection of a monument to the memory of BERNARD RENAULT, whose untime 
death this fall brought to a close those remarkable researches which have 
greatly enriched the science of paleobotany during the past thirty-six years. It 
roposed to erect this monument at Autun, France, RENAULT’s native place and 
the scene of most of his labors. Subscriptions may be sent to M. BERTE R, 
secrétaire de la Société d’ histoire naturelle, 2 rue de |’ Arbaléte, Autun, France. 
THE THREE botanical societies, Botanical Society of America, Society for” 
Plant Morphology and Physiology, and American Mycological Society, through’ 
committees of conference, have agreed upon certain general principles, upon | 
the basis of which they will fuse into one national society under the name, The | 
There are to be two classes of membership, members and associates, the dis- | 
tinction being based upon published work. The fees are to be $5 per year- | 
Grants for research are to be made from the income. Meetings are to be annual, 
or temporary sections in iles of committees. A joint committee has been 
formed to prepare a constitution for the united societies, which shall embod 
the principles = to, and to complete the reorganization, which is 
expected to promote research and good fellowship among American botanists. 
