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Miss Anna M. Clark (A. M., Columbia University, 1904), 

 author of a descriptive work on "The Trees of Vermont," has 

 been appointed teacher of "science and nature study" in the 

 New York City Training School for Teachers. 



We learn from Science that Dr. W. A. Kellerman, professor 

 of botany in the Ohio State University, will spend the months of 

 January, February and March in Guatemala, studying and col- 

 lecting the parasitic fungi of that country. 



At the annual meeting held on January 10, Judge Addison 

 Brown resigned the presidency of the Torrey Botanical Club, 

 after completing fifteen years of service in that office. Dr. H. 

 H. Rusby was chosen as his successor. 



Tlie Boston Evening Transcript notes that Mr. C. G. Pringle 

 has recently returned to the University of Vermont with a collec- 

 tion of 25,000 specimens of plants, representing about 600 spe- 

 cies, secured during an eight months' visit to Mexico. 



Dr. Burton E. Livingston, instructor in plant physiology in 

 the University of Chicago, has accepted an appointment to a 

 position in the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture and expects to begin his new duties on Apnl i. 



The American Mycological Society held meetings in Phila- 

 delphia during the Christmas holidays in connection with the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science and other 

 affiliated societies. The officers for 1905 are: president, Mr. C. 

 H. Peck ; vice-president, Professor F. S. Earle ; secretary, Mr. C. 

 L. Shear. 



Nature Study, published at Manchester, New Hampshire, was 

 discontinued with the number for July, 1904. The Natnre-Stutfy 

 Reviezv, a bimonthly, with Professor M. A. Bigelow of the Teach- 

 ers College, Columbia University, as managing editor, has begun 

 its first volume with the issue for January, 1905. 



In the discussion of "The Mutation Theory of Organic Evo- 

 lution" before the American Society of Naturalists at Philadel- 

 phia, December 28, botany was represented by Dr. D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal of the New York Botanical Garden, who spoke from the 

 standpoint of " Plant Breeding," and b)- Professor Liberty H. 



