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Dr. F. A. Wolf, for the past four years pathologist of the 

 Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station at Auburn, Alabama, 

 has resigned to become head of the department of botany and 

 plant pathology at the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechan- 

 ical College, Raleigh, N. C. He will take up his new duties 

 on January i. 



Dr. J. S. Caldwell, for the past three years head of the depart- 

 ment of botany at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and plant 

 physiologist to the station, has been appointed biochemist in 

 fruit products investigations in the Washington State College, 

 Pullman, Washington. He will take up the duties of the new 

 position on January i. 



Dr. Theodor Boveri, known chiefly for his work on cytology, 

 died at Wiirzburg on October i6 in his fifty- third year. 



Dr. Henry C. Bastian, one of the few scientists who adhered 

 to the theory of the spontaneous generation of life, died at his 

 home in Chesam Bois, Bucks, on November 17, in his 79th year. 

 He was born at Truro and educated at University College in 

 London, where he later became Professor of Pathological Anat- 

 omy and Principles and Practice of Medicine, and from which 

 he retired as Professor Emeritus. Dr. Bastian was also formerly 

 Censor of the Royal College of Physicians in London. He was 

 author of a number of books, the last of which were "The Nature 

 and Origin of Living Matter" and "The Evolution of Life." 

 Dr. Bastian was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of 

 the Linnean Society. 



In a recent issue of a widely circulated magazine devoted to 

 Arts and Crafts the following appeared as a caption to a photo- 

 graph: "Another of the many wild flowers that formerly lived 

 in the woods, but are now fully at home in the meadows: the 

 white berries of the buttercup are much appreciated by the 

 marsh birds." The picture is of the fruit of Actaea alia! 



It is reported in the Notre Dame Scholastic that the library 

 and herbarium, consisting of about one hundred thousand speci- 



