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NEWS ITEMS 

 INIiss IMarion E. Latham, A.M. (Columbia, 1905), has been 

 appointed assistant in botany in Barnard College, Columbia Uni- 

 versity. 



Professor George F. Atkinson, of Cornell University, is spend- 

 ing the summer vacation in Europe, engaged chiefly in his stud- 

 ies of the fleshy fungi. 



Dr. P. A. Rydberg, of the New York Botanical Garden staff, 

 left New York on ^lay 29, to spend most of the summer in 

 making botanical collections in Utah. 



Miss Alice A. Knox, who for the past two years has been 

 assistant in botany in Barnard College, is now assistant in the 

 laboratories of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Professor and Mrs. Francis E. Lloyd left New York on June 

 3, for Tuscon, Arizona, where Professor Lloyd will continue his 

 researches at the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie 

 Institution. 



Mr. E. W. D. Holway, of the University of Minnesota, has 

 begun the publication of a quarto work entitled " North Amer- 

 ican Uredineae." Part I of volume I, consisting of 32 pages and 

 10 plates, was issued April 15. 



It is learned from Sc-n^ufc that Dr. B. M. Duggar, professor of 

 botany in the University of Missouri, sailed for Europe on May 

 20 and that he will devote the coming year to work in various 

 botanical laboratories on the Continent. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton sailed for Europe on May 27 to 

 attend the International Botanical Congress in Vienna. They 

 will visit also the botanical establishments in Paris, Geneva, Ber- 

 lin and Kew, returning to New York in the latter part of July. 



Mr. ¥. V. Covillc and Mr. W. V. Wight, of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, were among the American delegates 

 tf> the International Botanical Congress which met in Yienna, 

 June II to 18. Their names were omitted in tiie partial list of 

 Aincrican delegates published in Torkev.\ for April. 



