NEWS NOTES 



Professor William Lynn Jepson of the Department of Botany 

 at the University of California was recently appointed faculty 

 lecturer for 1934. This is the highest honor that can be given a 

 member of the faculty. Professor Jepson established the Botani- 

 cal Journal, "Erythea" and is the author of the Manual of 

 Flowering Plants of California and is working at present on, 

 "The Flora of California," which is being published in sections. 



Dr. George J. Peirce has retired from the chair of botany at 

 Stanford University with the title of professor of botany, emeri- 

 tus. Dr. Peirce has been connected with Stanford University 

 since 1897, when he was appointed assistant professor of botany. 



Preliminary announcements have been sent out for the Sixth 

 International Botanical Congress to be held in Amsterdam from 

 September 2 to 7, 1935. The congress will be divided into ten 

 sections which will meet mornings and afternoons, there are to 

 be general evening meetings and excursions to laboratories, cen- 

 ters of flower culture and to the Zuider Zee. 



At the Boston meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science Dr. William H. Eyster of Bucknell 

 University was elected chairman of the botanical section and 

 Dr. A. S. Foster of Norman, Oklahoma, secretary. The Botani- 

 cal Society of America elected Dr. Elmer D. Merrill of the New 

 York Botanical Garden president and Dr. H. L. Shantz of the 

 University of Arizona vice-president. 



The New York Academy of Science has elected Dr. Marshall 

 A. Howe president for the year 1934. 



On January 18th Morrill Hall of the University of Tennessee 

 was destroyed by fire. Besides scientific instruments the her- 

 barium of the university was destroyed. 



Science reports the death of Andrew C. Life, professor of 

 botany at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 

 Mr. Life had been on the faculty of the university since 1907 

 and was sixty-four years old. 



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