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NEWS ITEMS 



H. H. York, A. M., fellow in botany in Columbia University 

 during the past college year, has been appointed instructor in 

 botany in the University of Texas. 



Miss Winifred J. Robinson, instructor in biology in Vassar 

 College, spent her summer vacation at the New York Botanical 

 Garden, engaged chiefly in studies of Hawaiian ferns. 



Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, who has been assistant in botany in Colum- 

 bia University for the last two years, has accepted an appointment 

 as professor of botany in the University of Utah at Salt Lake City. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton, Professor L. M. Underwood, and 

 Miss Delia W. Marble sailed for Jamaica on August 25 for a 

 month of botanical exploration among the mountains of the island. 

 Professor Alexander W. Evans of Yale University went a week 

 in advance, intending to cooperate with the party on its arrival. 



Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer, director of La Zacualpa Botanical 

 Station, Escuintla, Chiapas, Mexico, was in New York in the 

 early part of September. He was planning to sail from San 

 Francisco about September 14, to visit Hawaii, the Philippines, 

 the Straits Settlements, and Java, in the interests of tropical agri- 

 culture, with special reference to the rubber and coffee industries. 



Professor Douglas H. Campbell of Stanford University has 

 returned to his duties after a sabbatical year of absence during 

 which he has made a tour of the globe, visiting South Africa, 

 Ceylon, Java, and other regions of peculiar botanical interest. 

 During the present year, Professor William R. Dudley of the 

 same university is on a leave of absence. 



The Journal of Botany for September records the death of Mr. 

 Charles Baron Clarke, which took place at Kew, England, on 

 August 25, and of Professor H. Marshall Ward, which occurred 

 at Torquay on August 26. Mr. Clarke was born in 1832 and 

 was especially well known through his studies of the Cyperaceae. 

 Marshall Ward was born in 1854. In 1895 he succeeded 

 Babington in the professorship of botany at Cambridge, where 

 he gained a distinguished reputation as a teacher. Papers on 

 parasitic fungi and plant pathology and hand-books of grasses 

 and of trees are among his best-known writings. 



