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NEWS ITEMS 

 William Henry Brewer, professor of agriculture in the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale University since 1864, died on November 

 2, in the eighty-third year of his age. Professor Brewer was 

 first assistant on the geological survey of California from i860 

 to 1864, had special charge of the botanical collections of this 

 survey, and with Sereno Watson and Asa Gray wrote the "Botany 

 of California," setting forth the botanical results of the survey 

 in two quarto volumes. Several Californian species bear his name. 



Dr. Melchior Treub, for many years director of the famous 

 botanical garden at Buitenzorg, Java, and director of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture for the Dutch East Indies, died at Saint- 

 Raphael, Var, France, on October 3. He was born near Leyden 

 in 185 1. Dr. Treub was editor of the important Annales du 

 Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg, beginning with its second vol- 

 ume in 1885 and retaining this editorship even since his retire- 

 ment about a year ago. He was the author of many noteworthy 

 botanical papers, covering a wide range of topics. 



David Pearce Penhallow, the botanist and professor of botany 

 at McGill University, Montreal, died October 26, on board the 

 steamship Lake Manitoba bound for Liverpool. Professor Pen- 

 hallow was born at Kittery Point, Me., May 25, 1854. He was 

 graduated from the Massachusetts State College in 1873. In 

 1876, Professor Penhallow went to Japan and became professor 

 of chemistry and botany in the Imperial College of Agriculture, 

 Sapporo, Japan. He remained there until 1880, when he re- 

 turned to this country and became instructor in physiological 

 Botany in Prof. Gray's department of Harvard University. In 

 1882 he went to the Houghton Farm Scientific and Experimental 

 Station as botanist and chemist. From here he went to McGill 

 University in 1883. Professor Penhallow was a member of all 

 the prominent botanical and natural history societies. He was 

 vice-president of Section G of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. Among his numerous contributions 

 are the Review of Canadian Botany from the First Settle- 

 ment of New France to the Nineteenth Century, and various 

 publications on paleobotany, plant anatomy and conifers. 



