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Dr. H. H. Whetzel, professor of phytopathology at Cornell 

 University, is spending a year at the University of Heidelberg. 



The preliminary announcement for the International Botanical 

 Congress of 191 5 has been issued. The meetings will be held at 

 London from May 22-29, 1915, and additional information may 

 be obtained from Dr. A. B. Rendle, British Museum, Cromwell 

 Road, London, S. W. 



Dr. R. M. Harker has issued recently a geographical and 

 statistical study on "The Forest Regions of the Mississippi in 

 relation to the Lumber Industry." It takes up many questions 

 of interest to the phytogeographer. The original paper appeared 

 in The Southern Liimherman on 23 August, 1913. 



According to the Evening Post Mr. Charles L. Pack, of Lake 

 wood, N. J., has given $6,000 to Princeton for the botanical- 

 laboratory building fund. 



At the LTniversity of West Virginia the following appointments 

 have been made: Dr. A. Arkin, professor of bacteriology and 

 pathology; Dr. L. J. Knight, plant physiologist in the experiment 

 station, in cooperation with the University of Chicago University, 

 and E. F. Woodcock, instructor in botany. 



Mr. I. D. Odle has been appointed instructor in botany and 

 bacteriology at the University of Florida. In the experiment 

 station Mr. J. Matz has been appointed laboratory assistant in 

 plant patholog}^ and Mr. O. F. Burger has been granted leave 

 of absence for study at Harvard. 



A. F. Blakeslee and C. D. Jarvis have issued, in pamphlet 

 form, the keys contained in their "Trees in Winter" published 

 early this year by Macmillan's. Keys to the genera and species 

 of trees based on characters visible in winter are given in this 

 pamphlet which will be of great use to teachers. It can only 

 be obtained from the authors at Storrs, Conn. The price is 

 thirty cents. 



We learn from Science that Dr. Francis Gray Smart, of Tun- 

 bridge Wells, has left £10,000 to Gonville and Caius College, 

 Cambridge, for two "Frank Smart Studentships" in natural 



