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sun as in deep shade and it seems to me that so drought-resistant 

 a plant would be worth introducing for use in desert regions." 

 The plant is of interest especially from the fact that most of the 

 genus is South African. 



Dr. A. J. Grout has resigned as editor of the Bryologist and 

 has been succeeded by Dr. O. E. Jennings, of the Carnegie 

 Museum, Pittsburgh. 



Dr. R. Ruggles Gates, lecturer in biology, St. Thomas Hospital, 

 London, is giving a course of lectures on heredity and mutations 

 at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. 



Dr. Karl M. Wiegand, of Wellesley College, has been ap- 

 pointed professor of botany in the State College of Agriculture of 

 Cornell University. 



Dr. A. B. Stout, director of the laboratories at the New York 

 Botanical Garden, has been appointed editor of the garden 

 Journal to succeed Dr. F. J. Seaver, who will hereafter devote 

 more of his time to Mycologia. 



