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NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. H. A. Gleason has been promoted to an assistant professor- 

 ship of botany at the University of Michigan. 



Dr. George M. Reed of the University of Missouri is spending 

 the summer at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



Mr. W. W. Tupper has been given leave of absence from 

 instructorship in botany, and Dr. A. H. Povah has been appointed 

 as his substitute in botany for the year 1916-17, at the University 

 of Michigan. 



Mr. H. F. Bergman and Mr. Harvey Stallard of the Depart- 

 ment of Botany, University of Minnesota, will spend the summer 

 in studying plant succession in Minnesota. Special study of the 

 nature and development of swamps in Anoka and Pennington 

 counties will be made in cooperation with the Division of Soils. 



The University of Michigan greenhouse space will be enlarged 

 during the present summer by addition of two new glass houses, 

 each 20 ft. X 100 ft. 



An arrangement has been worked out under which New York 

 University and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden will cooperate in 

 encouraging botanical investigations. Under the arrangement 

 which was adopted by the University Council, such members 

 of the scientific staff of the Botanic Garden as it may designate 

 with the concurrence of the University authorities will be made 

 officers of instruction in the Graduate School, and will be lecturers 

 in the Department of Biology of that school. Courses of 

 graduate rank offered by the Garden, when approved by the 

 Faculty of the Graduate School, will be listed as courses in the 

 Graduate School and will be given the same credit as other 

 graduate courses. Properly qualified students who take these 

 courses may present them in satisfaction of the requirements 

 for advanced degrees given by New York University. Students 

 of the University are to have all of the privileges of the library, 

 herbarium, laboratory equipment and collections of living plants 

 and other similar material that may be necessary in making 

 their investigations. 



