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Dr. Chas. H. Otis has resigned his position as instructor in 

 botany and assistant-botanist at New Hampshire College and 

 Experiment Station, to accept a position in the biological labor- 

 atory at Western Reserve University. Dr. Otis will have charge 

 of the instruction in botany in Adelbert College and the College 

 for Women, taking the place of Dr. Wm. H. Weston, who re- 

 cently resigned. 



Dr. Paul C. Graff has been appointed instructor in botany 

 at the University of Montana. 



Dr. William Oilman Thompson, professor of medicine in the 

 Medical College of Cornell University, has resigned, and is suc- 

 ceeded by Dr. Lewis Atterbury Conner, professor of clinical 

 medicine in the college since 1905. Dr. Thompson is president 

 of the board of managers of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. V. H. Young, formerly of the botany department of the 

 University of Wisconsin, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of botany in the State University of Iowa. He takes charge of 

 the work in plant physiology and mycology. 



Lieutenant-Colonel E. Alexander Mearns, U.S.A., died in 

 Washington, D.C., on November i, in his sixty-first year. He 

 was one of the founders of the American Ornithologists' Union, 

 and a member of the Roosevelt East African expedition. Dr. 

 Mearns was an indefatigable collector of natural history speci- 

 mens all his life, and was the author of many contributions to 

 zoology and botany. He will be remembered by the older 

 members of the club as a large collector of native plants in the 

 region of West Point, many of his specimens serving as records of 

 the occurrence of certain species in the Highlands of the Hudson. 

 Most of the collection from this region is at the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden. 



The entire collection of the late C. B. Robinson, from Amboina, 

 approximating 1,500 numbers, made between July 15 and De- 

 cember 3, 1913, was divided into two series, first "Robinson: 

 Plantae Rumphianae Amboinenses" to include those specimens 



