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NEWS ITEMS 



At the University of Nebraska adjunct professors Walker and 

 Pool have been made assistant professors of botany. 



Professor William James Beal, having completed forty years of 

 continuous service, will resign his professorship in botany at the 

 Agricultural College of Michigan. 



Professor John M. Macfarlane of the University of Pennsylvania 

 is planning to spend the coming year in botanical study in several 

 botanical centers of Europe. 



Professor J. C. Arthur, Dr. John Hendley Barnhart, and Pro- 

 fessor Alexander W. Evans represented the Torrey Botanical Club 

 at the International Botanical Congress held in Brussels May 14- 

 20. Dr. Barnhart also has a commission to purchase books for 

 the library of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Mr. W. W. Eggleston, recently of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, has been appointed assistant botanist of the Forest Service, 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. He has been detailed for work in 

 Colorado in investigations of poisonous forage plants in coopera- 

 tion with the Bureau of Plant Industry. He left New York for 

 his new field on May 28, 



The Naples Table Association for Promoting Laboratory Re- 

 search by Women hereby announces the offer of a fifth prize of 

 one thousand dollars for the best thesis written by a woman, on 

 a scientific subject, embodying new observations and new conclu- 

 sions based on an independent laboratory research in biological, 

 chemical, or physical science. For further information address 

 the secretary, Mrs. A. D. Mead, 283 Wayland Avenue, Provi- 

 dence, R. I. 



Announcements of the following summer schools have been 

 received : 



I. The Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, Long 

 Island; June to September; tuition ^^30; for further information 

 address Dr. Charles B. Davenport, Cold Spring Harbor, Long 

 Island. 



