Miss I\Iai\- I'crlc Anderson, supervisor of nature stud)-, Uni- 

 versity School, Chicago, has been appointed instructor in botany 

 in Mt. Holyokc College for the coming year. 



Dr. John K. Small and Mr. Percy Wilson, of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, are spending a few weeks in making collections 

 in the extreme southern end of the peninsula of Florida. 



Mr. Homer D. House, recently assistant in botany in the 

 Columbia University, has been acting instructor in botany in 

 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, since y\i)ril i. 



Mr. C. W. Hope, who had published extensively on the ferns 

 of northern India, and many of whose specimens are in the her- 

 barium of the New York Botanical Garden, died on l-'ebruary 

 1 6, at Kew, England. 



Prof Dr. Karl Schumann, of I3erlin, died early in April. He 

 was best known for his extensi\'e studies upon the Cactaceae, 

 and the fact that this family is almost wholly American makes 

 his work of particular interest to American botanists. 



Mr. Le Roy Abrams, author of the recently published " P^lora 

 of Los Angeles and Vicinit)'," has been appointed fellow in 

 botany in Columbia University. Mr. Abrams received the degree 

 of A. B. from Stanford University in 1 899 and that of A. M. in 1 902. 



Dr. Jose Ramirez, chief of the section of natural histor\' of 

 the Instituto Medico Nacional, died in the City of Mexico, April 

 I I, 1904. He was the author of " La Vegetacion de Mexico " 

 and of various other works on the flora and materia medica of 

 Mexico. 



Dr. Hans Hermann Behr, for man)- )'ears professor of botany 

 in the California College of Pharmacy, died in San Francisco on 

 March 6, in his eighty-sixth year. Dr. Behr was the author of 

 the " Flora of the Vicinity of San Francisco," published in 188S, 

 and of several shorter papers on the Californian and Australian 

 floras. He was also an entomologist, a linguist, and a man of 

 very marked general ability. 



In the prize essay competion of 1904, conducted b}' the New 

 York Botanical Garden, from a portion of the income of the 

 Caroline and Olivia Phelps Stokes Fund for the Preservation of 

 Native Plants, the first prize, of twenty-five dollars, has been 



