NEWS. 
Dr. Ernst HALuier, the mycologist, died at Dachau, near Munich, Decem- 
ber 20, 1904, at the age of seventy-three. 
Dr. A. Ernst, formerly privatdocent at the University of Ziirich, has been 
- appointed professor and director of the botanical Jaboratories. 
Miss Ciara E. Cummines, of Wellesley College, went to Jamaica in Feb- 
ruary, to spend several months in a study of the flora, especially the lichens. 
A. S. Hrrcucock, of the Division of Agrostology, Department of Agriculture, 
has purchased the grass herbarium of F. LAMSoN-SCRIBNER, containing many 
of his types. 
Dr. Ernst ABBE, of Jena, whose name is so well known in connection with 
the optical apparatus of the Karl Zeiss establishment, died January 16 at the age 
of sixty-four years. 
Str JosePH Hooker retired from the editorship of the Botanical Magazine 
at the close of 1904, after forty years of service. He is succeeded by Sir W. 
THISELTON-DYER. ; 
AT THE MEETING of the Linnean Society on December 15, 1904, fifteen ladies 
were elected Fellows. Among those thus honored were Miss MARGARET BENSON 
and Miss ETHEL SARGANT. 
AT THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Torrey Botanical Club, held on January * 
H. H. Russy was elected president in the place of ADDIsoN Brown, who resigned 
after fifteen years of service in that office. 
JouN F. CrowE Lt, director of the Buffalo Botanical Garden, will visit Panama 
during February and March as an agent of the New York Botanical Garden, 
which will undertake botanical explorations in co-operation with the engineers 
of the Panama Canal Commission.— Science. 
Proressor N. L. Brirron, Mrs. E. G. Britton, Dr. C. F. MriisPAUGH, 
and Mr. M. A. Hows sailed in January to New Providence for a further botan! 
exploration of the Bahaman archipelago. Mrs. Britton will collect on New 
Providence, while the rest of the party will explore the Berry and Great Bahama 
groups. : 
Tue Macuiiian Co. announces for the spring a revised and enlarged — 
tion with many new illustrations of CAMPBELL’s Mosses and ferns. They wil ich 
publish a book by Maup G. PETERSON entitled How to know wild fruits, wh of 
classifies wild plants by their fruits. They are also to publish a translatio? 
Connnem’s Chemistry of the proteids, by Dr. Gustav Mann. The a 
be of interest not only to chemists, but especially to biologists. The advance : 
the knowledge of proteids will be fully set forth. [ a 
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