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the day itself, Professor Pax, rector of the University of Breslau, 

 with Professors Diels and Gilg, as its editors, presented to Pro- 

 fessor Engler a copy of the Fest-Band of Engler's "Botanische 

 Jahrbiicher." The volume forms a supplement to the fiftieth 

 volume of this publication, and consists of more than forty 

 illustrated contributions, largely from his pupils. Professor 

 Haberlandt presented Professor Engler, on behalf of hundreds of 

 subscribers, with his life-size marble bust, the work of the 

 sculptor, A. Manthe. On March 26 there was a banquet at 

 which the official world was represented; and on March 27 the 

 monthly meeting of the Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft was 

 converted into an "Engler" meeting, and Professor von Wett- 

 stein gave, by special invitation, a lecture on the phylogenetic 

 evolution of the Angiosperm flower. 



Mr. G. R. Bisby of the staff of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 has been given a leave of absence from the garden, in order to 

 accept a position as plant pathologist for the season with a potato 

 grower of northern Maine. He is working under general super- 

 vision of Dr. Melhus of the U. vS. Department of Agriculture. 



The Austrian Zoological and Botanical Society has awarded 

 the Archduke Rainer gold medals to two members of Yale 

 University, Dr. Ross G. Harrison, Bronson professor of com- 

 parative anatomy, and Dr. George R. Wieland, lecturer in 

 paleobotany. 



We learn from the daily papers of the death on April 28, at Paris, 

 of the botanist Philippe Edouard Leon Van Tieghem. He was 

 born on the 19th of April, 1829, at Bailleul, France. He was an 

 officer of the Legion of Honor, was perpetual secretary of the 

 Academy of vSciences, Paris, and was a professor at the Museum 

 of Natural History And the Institut Agronomique. He was the 

 author of many botanical books and papers, but his most dis- 

 tinguished work in recent years was the editorship of the botanical 

 section of the Annates des Sciences Naturelles. 



