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Mr. R. E. Stone, instructor in botany at the Alaban:ia Poly- 

 technic Institute, has been appointed professor of botany at the 

 University of Nebraska. 



Dr. I. F. Lewis, who has been studying at Naples and Bonn, 

 has resumed his duties as professor of biology at Randolph- 

 Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 



The Johns Hopkins laboratory and greenhouse have been com- 

 pleted ; the gardens now include about three hundred types of 

 plants illustrating pollination, seed dispersal, plant structure, and 

 vegetative adaptation. 



Appointments in biology not previously announced in Torreya 

 are those of Dr. David R. Whitney as assistant at Northwestern 

 University and Mr. Charles Packard as instructor at Williams 

 College. 



Professor Thomas H. Macbride, of the University of Iowa, 

 has been appointed chairman of the Iowa Forestry Commission 

 which will cooperate with the national organization in promoting 

 scientific and practical forestry. 



A recent crown commission has outlined a plan for Ireland which 

 proposes planting about 700,000 acres with forest trees. This, 

 with the 300,000 acres of existing forest, would give Ireland 

 ' 1,000,000 acres of forest land. 



Dr. Ernst A. Bessey, pathologist in the United States Depart- 

 ■ment of Agriculture, has been elected to the professorship of 

 botany in the University of Louisiana, at Baton Rouge. He as- 

 sumed his new duties on October 20. 



The following deaths have recently been announced: Dr. 

 Ernst Loeb, botanist, Berlin, aged sixty-six years ; Mr. M. D. 

 Clos, director of the botanical garden of Toulouse ; Mr. George 

 Nicholson, a former curator of the Royal Gardens at Kew ; and 

 Dr. Paul Hennings, curator of the Royal Botanical Museum at 

 Berlin. 



Mr. Harry Day Everett, a former student of forestry at Cornell 

 and Michigan and superintendent in the Philippine Forest Ser- 

 vice, was murdered by natives in the island of Negros in the early 

 summer. He was twenty -eight years of age. 



