NEWS. 
F. C. NEwcoMBE has been ne: to a full professorship of ore at the 
University of Michigan 
F. E. Clements, en of Nebraska, has been appointed associate pro- 
fessor of plant physiology 
PRoFEssor F. W. OLtver, University College, London, has been elected a 
Fellow of the Royal Society. 
Jutius WIESNER, priate s of Vienna, has been elected member of the 
Royal Danish Academy of Scienc 
N. WILLE, University of Chis has been elected foreign member of the 
Academy of Sciences at Stockholm. 
Dr. F. DELPrNo, ra ae of meer in the University and Director of the 
Botanic Garden, died at oe 
. CAROTHERS, University of a has been appointed instructor 
in apa at Rockford oe. “Bockfor d, Ill. 
F. Grace Smirn, University of Chicago, has been appointed instructor in 
botany at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 
P. H. Otsson-SEFFER, Stanford University, is to spend three months in the 
province of Soconusco, Mexico, in experimental work upon the Mexican rubber 
tree 
F. D. Heap, University of Nebraska, has been appointed botanist of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station and Associate Professor of botany in the Univer- 
sity School of Agriculture. 
Dr. W. B. McCattum, University of Chicago, has received the first Walker 
prize from the Boston Society of Natural History, the title of his paper being 
“Physiological analysis of the phenomena of regeneration in plants.” 
Tue Brorocicar STATION of the University of Montana, under the director- 
ship of M. J. Elrod, has announced its seventh annual session at Flathead Lake, 
Bigfork, Montana, extending from July r2 to August 17. The work in botany 
will be under the direction of Thomas A. Bonser (University of Chicago) of 
Spokane. 
THE MINNESOTA SEASIDE STATION, under the directorship of Professor 
Conway MacMillan, has announced its fifth session at Port pay I a: British 
vageine on the Straits of Juan de Fuca. The session extends fro uly 8 
o August 18, and the botanical staff oT of Conway eid Albert : 
Sie, E. Tilden, and F. K. Butters. 
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