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The University of North Carolina has just completed a new 

 $35,000 biological laboratory ; associate professor W. C. Coker 

 has been promoted to professor of botany. 



Dr. William Mansfield, treasurer of the Torrey Botanical Club, 

 has been advanced to the professorship of pharmacognosy in the 

 College of Pharmacy of Columbia University. 



Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, has just established a 

 department of botany and zoology ; Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, of the 

 University of Utah, will have charge of the botany. 



H. J. Eustace, at one time assistant botanist at the New York 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York, has been 

 appointed professor of horticulture in the Michigan Agricultural 

 College and horticulturist of the experiment station. He grad- 

 uated at the Michigan Agricultural College in 190 1. 



Mr. Alvah A, Eaton died at North Easton, Mass., on Septem- 

 ber 29, aged 43 years. He was the author of numerous papers 

 on the Pteridophyta and contributed the treatment of Eqtiisehiui 

 and hoctcs to the recently published " Gray's New Manual of 

 Botany." For the past six years he had been collector and as- 

 sistant to Mr. Oakes Ames of the Ames Botanical Laboratory at 

 North Easton. In this connection he made several expeditions 

 to Florida in search of orchids. 



The Torrey Club expects to have a lecture by Dr. J. C. Bose, pro- 

 fessor in the University of Calcutta, India, author of " Response 

 in the Living and Non-living," " Plant Response, as a Means of 

 Physiological Investigation " and of " Comparative Electro- 

 physiology," during his visit to this country during October and 

 November. Dr. Bose wishes to visit the more prominent institu- 

 tions of the east and middle west, and will be very glad to lec- 

 ture on his researches free of charge to university audiences or 

 before scientific societies. He may be addressed in care of Mr. 

 R. N. Tagorc, Box 135, University Station, Urbana, Illinois. 



