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The lecture was followed by an informal reception in the 

 library, and by an inspection of the library, laboratories, herbaria 

 and the museum exhibits. 



C. Stuart Gager, 



Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Herbert Maule Richards has been promoted to the pro- 

 fessorship of botany in Barnard College, Columbia Unix-ersity. 



Dr. W. W. Rowlee, assistant professor of botany in Cornell 

 University since 1893, has been advanced to the rank of professor. 



Conway MacMillan has resigned the professorship of botany 

 in the University of Minnesota in order to engage in business 

 enterprises. 



We learn from Science that Dr. George Macloskie, professor 

 of biology in Princeton University since 1875, has been appointed 

 professor emeritus. 



Dr. Duncan S. Johnson, associate professor of botany in Johns 

 Hopkins Universit}' since 1901, has been advanced to the pro- 

 fessorship of botany in that institution. 



Lucien M. Underwood, Torrey professor of botany in Colum- 

 bia University, received the degree of doctor of laws from Syracuse 

 University at the last annual commencement, June 13. 



In the Ohio State University, Mr. Robert F. Griggs has re- 

 cently been promoted to an assistant professorship of botany, and 

 Miss Freda Detmers to an instructorship in the same subject. 



Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, curator of the botanical department of 

 the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, returned in the 

 latter part of June from a three months' visit to Europe. 



Miss Helen Letitia Palliser (A.B., Columbia, 1905), who has 

 been pursuing graduate studies in Columbia University during 

 the past year, has accepted an appointment as assistant in biology 

 in Vassar College. 



Dr. T. C. Frye, professor of botany in the University of Wash- 

 ington, at Seattle, is spending a month at the New York Botani- 



