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and ordinarily but two in longitudinal section. Frau Lampa 

 remarks that the ripe antheridia showed no essential differences 

 whether they were exogenous or endogenous in origin, but an 

 Afithoccros antheridium, whether exogenous or endogenous, with 

 a stalk ten cells broad is a heresy that will naturally excite sus- 

 picion among students of the archegoniates. 



Marshall A. Howe. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. John K. Small, curator of the museums of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, is again devoting several weeks to explorations 

 in southern Florida. 



Mr. Clifton D. Howe, assistant in botany in the University of 

 Chicago, has been appointed instructor in botany in the Biltmore 

 Forest School, Biltmore, North Carolina. He begins his new 

 duties on January i . 



Annual meetings of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, of the Botanical Society of America, the 

 Society for Plant Morphology and Physiology, and the American 

 Mycological Society, will be held at Philadelphia, December 

 27-30, 1904. 



Professor Nathaniel Lord Britton received the honorary degree 

 of Doctor of Science from Columbia University October 31, at 

 the Convocation held in connection with the i 50th anniversary 

 of the foundation of King's College. On the same occasion, the 

 name of the chair now held by Professor L. M. Underwood was 

 made the Torrey professorship of botany in honor of John Torrey, 

 emeritus professor of botany in Columbia College from i860 to 

 1873. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, in which Torrey 

 was professor of chemistry and botany from 1827 to 1855, was 

 made a part of Columbia University in 1891. 



