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Press dispatches bring the sad news of the death in Guatemala 

 on March 8 of Professor WilHam A. Kellerman, head of the 

 department of botany of the Ohio State University. In company 

 with several student assistants he was on his fourth winter expe- 

 dition to Guatemala, as was briefly noted in the February Tor- 

 REYA. Professor Kellerman was born in Ashville, Ohio, May i, 

 1850, was graduated from Cornell University in 1874; and 

 received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Zurich in 

 1 88 1. He was professor of botany in the Kansas State Agri- 

 cultural College from 1883 to 1891, since which time he had 

 been professor of botany in the Ohio State University. In 1885, 

 in association with J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart, he established 

 The Journal of Mycology, which, in 1889, on the completion of the 

 fourth volume, was continued by the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture as a bulletin of the Section of Vegetable Pathology until 

 1894, when its publication ceased, only to be resumed in 1902 

 as an independent organ under the editorship of Professor Kel- 

 lerman, In addition to numerous papers on the fungi. Professor 

 Kellerman was the author of a text-book under the title of " Ele- 

 ments of Botany," an "Analytical Flora of Kansas " (with Mrs. 

 Kellerman), a " Catalogue of Ohio Plants " (with W. C. Werner), 

 and a large number of short articles involving a wide range of 

 botanical activity. Professor Kellerman was a member of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club. 



