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cal Garden, engaged in studying his collections of Pacific Coast 

 mosses. 



Mr. Howard S. Reed, instructor in botany in the University of 

 Missouri since 1903, has resigned that position to accept an 

 appointment in the Bureau of Soils of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. George H. Shull, of the department of experimental evo- 

 lution of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has recently 

 been in Santa Rosa, California, making a study of Mr. Luther 

 Burbank's experiments in plant breeding. 



Dr. Forrest Shreve, recently appointed associate professor of 

 botany in the Woman's College, Baltimore, returned June 1 1 

 from a residence of eight months at the tropical laboratory of the 

 New York Botanical Garden at Cinchona, Jamaica. 



Dr. Cyrus G. Pringle, keeper of the herbarium of the University 

 of Vermont, returned in June from his twenty-fifth annual collect- 

 ing trip to Mexico, but left Burlington on July 5 for another Mexi- 

 can expedition. He was given the honorary degree of doctor of 

 science at the last commencement of the University of Vermont. 



The Botanical Gazette for June states that Dr. Bradley Moore 

 Davis, assistant professor of botany in the University of Chicago, 

 has been spending the spring in Cambridge, completing a text- 

 book of botany in co-authorship with Mr. Joseph Y. Bergen ; 

 also that his connection with the University of Chicago ended on 

 July I. 



The German Botanical Society offers a prize of one thousand 

 marks for the best essay on the correctness of the doctrine of the 

 polymorphism of the algae. Manuscripts submitted in competi- 

 tion must be written in German, English, French, or Italian, and 

 must be in the hands of the secretary of the Society, Prof. Dr. 

 Carl Miiller, Steglitz bei Berlin, Zimmerstrasse 15, by December 

 31, 1907. 



