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history or botany, and if this sum shall be more than sufficient 

 to provide for these studentships the balance is to be used to 

 promote the study of these subjects in that college. 



Professor Josephine Tilden, of the department of botany, 

 University of Minnesota, has returned from Australia and New- 

 Zealand, where she spent the past year in botanical research in 

 the field and in collecting material in algology. 



Mr. J. H. Muncie, assistant pathologist at the Ohio Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station at Wooster, Ohio, has been ap- 

 pointed assistant in plant pathology at the Michigan Agricultural 

 College, beginning with November 17. 



The Botanical Society of Washington gave a dinner and 

 special program at the Powhatan Hotel on Tuesday evening, 

 Dec. 2, 1913, in honor of the 70th birthday of the veteran 

 botanist. Dr. Edward Lee Greene. The program consisted as 

 follows : Personal experiences, Mr. F. V. Coville. Rocky 

 Mountain Botany, Prof. Aven Nelson. Berkleyan Days, Mr. 

 V. K. Chestnut. Botanical Writings, Prof. A. S. Hitchcock. 

 Reminiscences, Mr. Ivan Tidestrom. The society will also 

 present Dr. Greene with a book-plate in honor of the occasion. 



Prof. Aven Nelson, of the University of Wyoming, is spending 

 the month of December in Washington in the study of plants in 

 the U. S. National Herbarium. 



