NEWS. 
Dr. Oscar BrEFELD, professor of botany at Breslau, has retired from acti 
service. 
Dr. JOHANN GoROSCHANKIN, professor of botany in the Imperial University 
and director of the Botanical Gardens at Moscow, died recently at the age 0 
sixty years. ; 
ProFEssorR GEORGE J. Perrce has returned from working at the Zodlogical 
Station at Naples and resumed his duties at Leland Stanford University at the 
beginning of the year. . 
THE ForRESTRY QUARTERLY, whose chief editor is Professor B. E. FERNOW, a4 
has increased its subscription price to $2, as the amount of material for publica: 
tion demands an issue of three to four hundred pages a year. 
Henri T. A. Hus, M.S., a graduate of the University of California and 
student with Huco pr Vrtss, has been appointed to take charge of the herbarium = 
work at the Missouri Botanic Gardens, St. Louis. Mr. Hus has given much -~ 
attention to fasciation and to mutations in plants. ‘ 
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Notice.—Owing to the increasing pressure upon our space, and in pares 
to numerous contributors, the Editors of the BoTANICAL GAZETTE are constrained 
to announce that with the beginning of volume XL (July 1905) no paper exceeding 
thirty pages in length (about 11,000 words) can be accepted for publication, 
unless the author is willing to pay for additional pages; in which case the 
of the number will be correspondingly increased. Longer papers that — 
already been received and accepted will be published in due time. 
Attention is also directed to the more liberal terms for separates an 
in the advertising pages. 
nounced 
to the rapidly accumulating collections that are making Washington a great eee 
for taxonomic work. Captain Sarru will retain for the present the custody ee 
library and the greater part of his collection, but some 25,000 specimens 
already been sent to Washington. 
