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NEWS ITEMS 



Professor Ludwig Loczy has been commissioned by the Royal 

 Hungarian Natural History Association to devise a plan for an 

 extensive botanical survey of Hungary. 



Dr. William A. ]\Iurrill, first assistant of the staff of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, sailed for Naples on May 29. He car- 

 ried with him numerous specimens of American fungi for com- 

 parison with types in European herbaria. He expects to return 

 to New York about the middle of August. 



Mr. Edward W. Berry, of the Geological Survey of Mary- 

 land, has been appointed assistant in palaeontology in Johns 

 Hopkins University. He will spend six weeks this summer in 

 field work in North Carolina under a special commission from 

 the United States Geological Survey in cooperation with the 

 Geological Survey of North Carolina. 



Mr. W. J. Morse, assistant professor of bacteriology in the 

 University of Vermont, has been appointed botanist of the Maine 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Orono, and will begin his new 

 duties on July i. Professor Morse's work at the University of 

 Vermont will be divided between Mr. H. A. Edson, instructor in 

 botany and bacteriology, and Mr. N. J. Giddings, botanical assist- 

 ant in the experiment station. 



At the one hundred and fifty-second commencement of Col- 

 umbia Univerity, held on June 13, the degree of doctor of phi- 

 losophy was conferred upon four candidates in botany, the re- 

 cipients and the subjects of their theses being as follows : Howard 

 James Banker, "A Contribution to a Revision of the North 

 American Hydnaceae " ; Ira Detrich Cardiff, "A Study of Syn- 

 apsis and Reduction " ; Henry Allan Gleason, " A Revision of 

 the North American Vernonieae " ; Charles Budd Robinson, 

 "The Chareae of North America." 



The twelfth annual field meeting of the Vermont Botanical 

 Club will be held on Mt. Mansfield July 4 and 5. The flora of 

 this mountain, the highest of the state, is of special and well- 



