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Mr. Filibert Roth, formerly assistant professor of forestry in 

 Cornell University, has been appointed professor of forestry in 

 the University of Michigan. 



Mr. Stewart H. Burnham, for the past two years an assistant 

 at the New York Botanical Garden, has removed to Springfield, 

 Mass., to accept a position on the literary staff of Webster's 

 Dictionary. 



Miss Winifred J. Robinson, instructor in botany in Vassar 

 College, and Dr. B. E. Livingston, instructor in plant physiology 

 in the University of Chicago, have been granted resident research 

 scholarships at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Mr. Roland M. Harper is in Georgia continuing his field-work 

 upon the flora of that state. This year his explorations have 

 been assisted by a grant from the Herrman Fund of the Scien- 

 tific Alliance of New York. 



Professor Francis Ernest Lloyd and Miss Mary Elizabeth Hart 

 were married at New York City, May 18, 1903. Professor and 

 Mrs. Lloyd are now in the West Indies, where they expect to 

 spend most of the summer in botanical exploration upon the 

 island of Dominica. 



Henry Griswold Jesup, A.M., for twenty-two years professor 

 of botany in Dartmouth College, died at Hanover, N. H., on 

 June 15. He was the author of "A Catalogue of the Flower- 

 ing Plants and Higher Cryptograms " found within about thirty 

 miles of Hanover, N. H., published in 1891, and of a preliminary 

 catalogue published in 1882. 



The "Algae of Northwestern America" by Professor William 

 Albert Setchell and Mr. Nathaniel Lyon Gardner, a paper com- 

 prising pages 165-418 and plates 17-27 of Vol. 1 of the Uni- 

 versity of California Publications (Botany), has recently been 

 issued. The work consists of an annotated list with descriptions 

 and figures of several new forms and species and of a new genus, 

 Whidbeyella. 



The " Flora of the Southeastern United States " by Dr. John 

 K. Small, Curator of the Museums and Herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, will be published, it is expected, at about 



