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NEWS ITEMS 



Miss Jean A. Cross and Mr. Frank Stoll have been added to 

 the staff of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



By the will of Col. Robert B. Woodward, who died at Coopers- 

 town, N. Y., on September second, twenty-five thousand dollars 

 have been added to the endowment funds of the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden, the income to be used without restriction, as 

 the trustees may from time to time designate. 



A recent number of the Annals of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences contains a paper of interest to phytogeographers, by 

 Prof. H. F. Osborn, entitled Review of the Pleistocene of Europe, 

 Asia and northern Africa. 



The annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America will 

 be held at Columbus, December 26-31, a special feature of which 

 will be an invitation program consisting of papers by E. W. 

 Reichert on Specificity of proteins and starches in relation to 

 genera, species and varieties; by Wm. Crocker on mechanics of 

 dormancy in plants, and by E. N. Transeau on periodicity of 

 fresh water algae. 



Dr. J. N. Rose, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 

 has returned from a five months' trip to the east coast of South 

 America. He has brought back large collections of cacti, ferns 

 and mosses. 



We learn from Science (November 5) that Dr. J. S. Caldwell 

 has been appointed to a position as specialist in fruit by-products 

 investigations at the Washington Experiment Station, at Pull- 

 man, Washington. 



In ToRREYA for August, page 182, line three, Rubus should be 

 Rhus. 



We regret to record the death on November 10 at Washing- 

 ton of Dr. E. L. Greene. He was born in Hopkinton, R. I., 

 August 20, 1843, the son of William M. and Abby Crandall 

 Greene. He was graduated from Albion College in Wisconsin 

 in 1866, and in 1895 Notre Dame University conferred on him 

 the honorary degree of LL.D. From 1871 to 1885 he was a 



