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M. Auguste Le Jolis died at Cherbourg on August 20 in his 

 eighty-first year. He was best known from his writings on the 

 marine algae and in later years for his interest in nomenclatural 

 questions. M. Le Jolis was the founder and for a half-century 

 director of the Socictc dcs Sciences iiatiirelles de Chcrbours^. 



C. Stuart Gager, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1902), for several years pro- 

 fessor of biological science in the State Normal College, Albany, 

 New York, has been appointed an assistant in the laboratories of 

 the New York Botanical Garden. Dr. Gager will devote a con- 

 siderable part of his time to a study of the histological and 

 embryological characters of certain plant hybrids. 



Frederick Orpen Bower, regius professor of botany in the 

 University of Glasgow, who, with Professor Goebel, of Munich, 

 was a speaker before the Section of Plant Physiology of the 

 International Congress of Arts and Science at St. Louis, made 

 two visits to New York during the month of September. 



Professor L. R. Jones, of the University of Vermont, spent 

 the summer in Europe as a special agent of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, being commissioned to study diseases of the potato, 

 with special reference to introducing disease-resisting strains. 

 Professor Jones received the degree of doctor of philosophy at 

 the last commencement of the University of Michigan. 



The editor of Torreva returned to New York on October 3, 

 after an absence of four months in Europe, where he was occu- 

 pied chiefly in studying the liistorical types of American marine 

 algae. The principal collections examined were those of Harvey 

 at Trinity College, Dublin ; of Lamouroux at Caen ; of Montagne, 

 Decaisne, and Dc la Pylaie at Paris ; of Kiitzing at Eerbeek, 

 Holland ; and of the Agardhs at Lund, Sweden. 



