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NEWS ITEMS. 



The many friends of Edward Lyman Morris, the editor of the 

 club, were shocked to hear of his sudden death on Sunday, 

 14 September. Mr. Morris was born at Monson, Mass., Octo- 

 ber 23, 1870, and was educated at Monson Academy, at Amherst 

 College, and at the Harvard Graduate School. He was labora- 

 tory assistant and instructor in botany at Amherst, 1893-95; 

 instructor in botany at Western High School, Washington, 1895- 

 1896, and later became head of the department of biology in the 

 Washington High Schools. He was also special plant expert of 

 the United States National Herbarium and the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, and field assistant of the United 

 States Fish Commission. Besides the Torrey Club, Mr. Morris 

 was a member of the Washington Biological Society, and of the 

 Cosmos Club at Washington. At the time of his death he was 

 curator of natural science at the Brooklyn Institute Museum, 

 having been acting curator-in-chief, until January i last, since 

 the resignation of Dr. F. A. Lucas in 191 1. All editorial matters 

 relating to the Bulletin will be attended to by Dr. M. A. Howe, 

 New York Botanical Garden, until further notice. 



Dr. Ralph Jones has resigned from the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Fruit Disease Investigations, to accept the professor- 

 ship in botany at Emory College, Oxford, Ga. The appointment 

 became effective September 15. 



We are glad to record the fact that W. Botting Hemsley, 

 formerly keeper of the Kew herbarium and library, was recently 

 made a Doctor of Laws by Aberdeen University. 



Dr. G. H. Shull, of Cold Spring Harbor, has gone abroad for a 

 year's study and travel, especially to write up the results of the 

 past seven years' work. He will for some time be at Dr. Bauer's 

 laboratory at Berlin. 



At the Oregon Agricultural College, Dr. W. M. Atwood has 

 been appointed instructor in botany; G. P. Posey, C. M. Scheerer 

 and S. H. Corsant, teaching fellows, and S. R. Winston, formerly 

 assistant in plant pathology at N. Car. Experiment Station, 

 becomes plant pathologist at the Hood River Branch Experiment 

 Station. 



