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George Plumer Burns, director of the Botanical Garden and 

 junior professor of botany in the University of Michigan, has 

 accepted an appointment as professor of botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Vermont. He was graduated from the Illinois State 

 Normal School, 1891 ; B.S. and A.M. Ohio Wesleyan Univer- 

 sity, 1898; Ph.D. University of Munich, 1900. In 1907-8 he 

 was instructor in botany in Ohio Wesleyan, then after two years 

 of work with Goebel, went, in January, 1901, to the University 

 of Michigan, where he has since remained. 



Charles Reid Barnes, professor of plant physiology in the 

 University of Chicago since 1898, died on February 24, in the 

 fifty-secqnd year of his age, as a result of a fall upon an icy side- 

 walk, wjhich brought on a cerebral hemorrhage. He was instruc- 

 tor and professor in natural science lines in Purdue University 

 from 1880 to 1887, and from 1887 to 1898 was professor of 

 botany in the University of Wisconsin. His two best known 

 works are perhaps his " Analytic Keys to the Genera and Species 

 of North American Mosses" (revised by F. D. Heald, 1897), 

 and "Outlines of Plant Life " (1900). He was the author also 

 of scholarly papers relating to plant physiology and of many 

 critical reviews. Professor Barnes had been a co-editor of the 

 Botanical Gazette since 1883. He was president of the Botanical 

 Society of America in 1903 and was a prominent and active 

 member of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



