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useful to all persons who are interested in the study of plant en- 

 vironments, especially to those who have not access to the author's 

 Mississippi reports abov^e mentioned ; and it should stimulate the 

 investigation of a branch of phytogeography which has received 

 entirely too little attention in America. 



Roland M. Harper. 



NEWS ITEMS 



According to a recent number of Science, Dr. M. A. Chr}^sler 

 of Harvard University has accepted a position as associate pro- 

 fessor of botany in the University of Maine. 



Mr. Homer D. House has resigned the associate professorship 

 of botany and bacteriology in Clemson College, South Carolina. 

 He plans to spend the coming year at the New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



Dr. William L. Bray has resigned the professorship of botany 

 in the University of Texas in order to accept the professorship 

 of botany in Syracuse University, recently vacated by Dr. J. E. 

 Kirkwood. 



Dr. W. C. Coker, associate professor of botany in the Univer- 

 sity of North Carolina, spent a considerable part of July in studies 

 at the New York Botanical Garden. He sailed from New York 

 on August 3 for a visit to Porto Rico. 



Professor F. S. Earle, recently director of the Cuban Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, has been at the New York Botanical 

 Garden for several weeks, continuing his studies of the gill-fungi. 

 He sailed from New York for Cuba on August lo. 



Dr. E. N. Transeau, who for the past year has been an inves- 

 tigator at the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold 

 Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y., has accepted an appointment 

 as professor of botany in the State Normal School at Charleston, 

 Illinois. 



Miss Winfred J. Robinson, instructor in botany in Vassar Col- 

 lege, has a year's leave of absence, which she will devote to 

 studies at the New York Botanical Garden. Miss Helen L. Pal- 



