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for his third botanical exploration of the Danish West Indian 

 islands. He is giving special attention to the collection of marine 

 algae with the assistance of Danish men-of-war for dredging 

 operations. Dr. Borgesen hopes to visit the United States on 

 his return voyage in April. 



New appointments and changes of title in the staff of the New 

 York Botanical Garden for the year 1906 include the following, 

 the appointments dating from January i, unless otherwise indi- 

 cated : First assistant. William A. Murrill ; head curator of the 

 museums and herbarium, John K. Small ; curator of the museum, 

 P. A. Rydberg, Arthur Hollick, Marshall A. Howe ; director of 

 the laboratories, C. Stuart Gager (February i) ; assistant curator, 

 R. S. Williams, C. B. Robinson (July i); administrative assist- 

 ant, Percy Wilson. 



The Bureau of Government Laboratories at Manila has been 

 combined with the Mining Bureau of the Philippine Government 

 and the united institutions are now to be known as the Bureau of 

 Science. The results of its researches will be published in a new 

 journal to be called " The Philippine Journal of Science." Dr. 

 E. B. Copeland and Mr. A. D. E. Palmer have been transferred 

 from the Bureau of Science to the educational department and 

 Dr. H. N. Whitford goes to the Forestry Bureau. 



Julien Reverchon, professor of botany in the Baylor College of 

 Medicine and Pharmacy, Dallas, Texas, and well known as a 

 student and collector of Texan plants, died near Dallas on De- 

 cember 30, 1905. He was born near Lyons, P'rance, August 3, 

 1834, coming to America and settling in Texas in 1855. He 

 was a correspondent of Gray, Engelmann, Sereno Watson, and 

 many later American botanists, and had contributed papers to 

 the Botanical Gazette, Garden and Forest, and the Fern Bidlctin. 

 He is said to have left a collection of over 20,000 specimens 

 of Texan plants. 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 held its fifty-fifth annual meeting in New Orleans, December, 

 29, 1905, to January 4, 1906. The address of Professor W. G. 

 Farlow, the retiring president of the Association was entitled 



