NEWS. 
Dr. G. Bitrer, formerly of the University of Miinster, has been appointed 
director of the recently established Botanical Garden at Bremen. 
Dr. W. Micuta, formerly at the Technical School at Carlsruhe, has been 
appointed professor of botany at the School of Forestry at Eisenbach. 
Prorrssor CHARLES R. BARNES, University of Chicago, sailed for Europe 
April 8, to be absent seven months. He will attend the International Botanical 
Congress at Vienna. 
Tar Cepar Pornr LAKE Laporatory of the Ohio State University offers 
instruction in general botany and ecology from June 26 to August 4. e 
instructor is Otto E. JENNINGS, Carnegie Museum. 
THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING of the Central Branch of American Society 
of Naturalists and Affiliated Societies, held at Chicago March 31 and April x, 
the annual address of the chairman, PROFESSOR JoHN M. Courter, University 
of Chicago, was upon ‘‘Public interest in research.” 
HE MARINE BroLocicaL LABORATORY at Woods Hole, Mass., offers instruc-: 
tion in Thallophytes and Cell studies from June 28 to August 9, 1905. The 
lnstructors are BRaDLEY Moore Davis, University of Chicago; James J. WOLFE, 
Trinity College, N. C., and Ropert B. Wyu1e, Morningside College, Iowa. 
Tue Borantcat Socrety of the Netherlands has begun the publication of 
Its Archives in two parts. The title of one is Nederlandsch Kruidkundig 
Archie}, dealing with the Dutch flora and printed in- Dutch ; that of the other is 
Recueil des travaux botaniques Néerlandais, dealing with subjects of more gen- 
eral interest. 
Tur Bermupa BrotocicaL STATION FOR RESEARCH will be open in 1905 
under the direction of Professor E. L. Mark, of Harvard University, and Pro- 
fessor C. L. Bristor, of New York University. Botanists who wish to take 
advantage of the station must apply not later than May 1. The date of sailing 
from New York is July 1 and six weeks will be spent at the station. 
Wirt rrs January number the Indian Forester commences its thirty-first 
volume with a great improvement in appearance. In typography, size, and — 
tents the subscription price (12s 6d) is exceedingly low. While the journal 
devotes considerable space to the discussion of forest problems that confront the 
Forest Service in India, it discusses problems of much wider scope and is of 
8eneral interest to all students of forestry. 
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