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ence, in the rooms of the Colorado Natural History Society in 

 the state capitol at Denver. 



Dr. B. E. Fernow, chief of the forest division of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture from 1886 to 1898. director of the 

 New York State College of Forestry from 1898 to 1903, and 

 recently professor of forestry in the Pennsylvania State College, 

 has accepted the position of dean of the college of forestry of the 

 University of Toronto. 



Dr. E. B. Copeland, of the Bureau of Science and more 

 recently of the Department of Education, of the Philippine Gov- 

 ernment, returned to the United States about the middle of 

 March. Dr. Copeland has declined the offer of a botanical re- 

 search position at the West Virginia University and has accepted 

 the directorship of a newly established agricultural school in the 

 Philippines. 



Mr. Elmer D. Merrill, botanist of the Bureau of Science of 

 the Philippines, sails from Manila for Seattle on May 15. He 

 has a leave of absence for about nine months, and will spend 

 some time in Washington, Cambridge, New York City, and 

 Maine, returning later to Manila by way of Europe, where he 

 hopes to devote three months to visiting herbaria, especially 

 those at Kew and Berlin. Dr. Frederick W. Foxworthy will be 

 in charge of the botanical department of the Bureau of Science 

 during Mr. Merrill's absence. 



The death of Sir Thomas Hanbury took place at his residence. 

 La Mortola, Ventimiglia, on the Riviera, Saturday, March 9. He 

 would have completed his 75tli year on June 26, next, when it 

 was proposed by the botanists of his acquaintance to give the day 

 special notice. Sir Thomas was well known as founder of the 

 Hanbury Botanical Institute of the University of Genoa and for 

 the great garden of arid plants and succulents at La Mortola, 

 where he welcomed the botanists of the world with true cordi- 

 ality. — W. L. Jepson. 



Pehr Olsson-Seffer, Ph. D. (Stanford, '04), recently director of 

 La Zacualpa Botanical Station, Escuintla, Chiapas, Mexico, and 

 since last September commissioner of tropical agriculture for the 

 Mexican Government, returned to New York on May 6, from 



