NEWS. 
Proressor F. W. Oxtver, University College, London, has been elected a 
Fellow of the Royal Society. 
Dr. E. Prrrzer, University of Heidelberg, has been elected associate member 
of the Royal Botanical Society of Belgium. 
ALFRED Ernst, professor of botany at Ziirich, has received from the govern- 
ment $1000 for botanical studies at Buitenzorg. 
Dr. GEORGE BITTER, docent in botany at Miinster, has been appointed direc- 
tor of the Botanical Garden at Bremen.—Science. 
ProFEssor Huco DeVries, University of Amsterdam, has been elected asso- 
ciate member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. 
W. A. KELLERMAN has returned from a three months’ exploration of Guatemala 
with a large amount of material, especially parasitic fungi. 
Proressor E. C. Jerrrey, Harvard University, has received a grant of $200 
from the Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund ‘‘for the study of cupressineous 
conifers.” 
A. S. Hircucocx, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been transferred to 
the Office of Botanical Investigations and Experiments, his position being styled 
“systematic agrostologist.” 
PROFESSOR THEOPHILE DURAND, director of the Botanical Garden at Brussels, 
and Professor JEAN Massart, University of Brussels, have been elected corre- 
sponding members of the Royal Academy of Belgium. 
F. E. Luoyp, Teachers College, Columbia University, has received a grant 
of $500 from the Carnegie Institution to aid him in continuing his studies on 
stomatal action and transpiration in desert plants. He spends three months 
at the Desert Botanical Laboratory for this purpose.—Science. 
Ir Is ANNOUNCED by Science that Professor Douctas H. CAMPBELL ee 
spend next year in an extensive trip through Europe, Africa, and Asia. He w 
visit the regions about Victoria and Zambesi Falls; the botanical gardens 
at Paradeniya and Buitenzorg; and will then return by way of the Philippine 
Islands 
