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Dr. Jesse M. Greenman, assistant curator of the department 

 of botany of the Field Columbian Museum, sailed from New 

 York for Yucatan on January 1 1 to collect and study the phaner- 

 ogamic flora of that region. 



Dr. Burton E. Livingston, recently of the Bureau of Soils, U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, has accepted a position with the 

 department of botanical research of the Carnegie Institution and 

 began his new work on January i. 



Miss Alice A. Knox, for several months assistant in the lab- 

 oratories of the New York Botanical Garden, becomes assistant in 

 the department of botanical research of the Carnegie Institution 

 on February i, remaining in residence at the Botanical Garden. 



The Biyologist, with the January issue, at the beginning of its 

 ninth volume, passes under the editorship of Mrs. Annie Morrill 

 Smith, who is assisted by Dr. A. J. Grout (mossesj, Mr. G. K. 

 Merrill (lichens), and Miss Caroline Coventry Haynes (hepatics). 



Sir William Thiselton-Dyer has resigned the directorship of 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, a positition which he had 

 held since 1885. His successor is Lieutenant-Colonel David 

 Prain, who has been director of the Botanical Survey of India 

 since 1898. 



Professor P. H. Rolfs, now in charge of the subtropical labora- 

 tory of the U. S. Department of Agriculture at Miami, Florida, 

 has been elected director and horticulturist of the Florida Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Lake City and will take up his 

 new duties on February i. Mr. Ernst A. Bessey is Professor 

 Rolfs' successor at Miami. 



At the meeting of the American Mycological Society held in 

 New Orleans January i, Vice-president F. S. Earle occupied the 

 chair in the absence of President Charles H. Peck. Twelve 

 papers were presented. The president, vice-president, and secre- 

 tary-treasurer (C. L. Shear) were continued in office as a com- 

 mittee to complete details of organization in connection with the 

 proposed union with other botanical societies. 



Dr. F. Borgesen, of the Botanical Museum of Copenhagen, 

 reached St. Thomas, West Indies, about the middle of December 



