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he retired as professor emeritus in 1912. For many years he 

 was vice-president, and for four years acting president of the 

 University of Illinois. He was formerly connected with the 

 United States Agricultural Experiment Station. 



President M. A. Brannon, of the University of Idaho, addressed 

 the Journal Club of the University of Washington on March 20 

 on the subject "Neo-botany." 



Professor C. A. Davis, for many years connected with the 

 U. S. Bureau of Mines and one of the chief authorities on peat 

 in the United States, died at Washington, D. C, on April 9 at 

 55 years of age. Dr. Davis was transferred from the U. S. 

 Geological Survey to the Bureau of Mines in 1910 when the 

 latter was organized. One of his most recent contributions was 

 in the work of M. L. Fuller on the "Geology of Long Island," 

 where Dr. Davis made some observations on salt marshes and 

 coastal subsidence. 



Mr. W. L. Eikenberry, who for seven years has been teacher 

 of botany in the University High School and summer quarter 

 assistant in the College of Education of the University of 

 Chicago, and editor of botany department in School Science and 

 Mathematics, has been appointed assistant professor of the 

 teaching of biological subjects in the University of Kansas. 

 He will begin his work in the University of Kansas in Septem- 

 ber, 1916. During the coming summer, Mr. Eikenberry will 

 give a two weeks' course of lectures on science teaching in 

 Oregon State Agricultural College, and also in the University of 

 Montana. 



Professor A. S. Hitchcock, systematic agrostologist of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, has gone to Honolulu to study 

 and collect the grasses of the Hawaiian Islands. He will be 

 accompanied by his son Albert E. Hitchcock as assistant. 



Dr. WilHam S. Cooper, of the University of Minnesota, 

 department of botany, will spend June and July in ecological 

 work upon the chaparral of California, and August in studies of 

 moraine vegetation in southeastern Alaska. 



