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The recently issued prospectus of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences for 1911-12 includes, under the department 

 of botany, 16 illustrated lectures, 4 illustrated conferences, 17 

 field meetings, and also outlines five courses covering various 

 phases of botanical activity. 



The following botanists have been working at the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole during the whole or part 

 of the past season: CM. Derick, B. M. Duggar, L. Knudson, 

 G. R. Lyman, G. T. Moore, W. J. V. Osterhout, and M. B. 

 Thomas. 



At the University of Utah, C. N. Jensen has been appointed 

 professor of botany and plant pathology for 1911-1912. 



We learn from the daily press of the appointment of Dr. H. H. 

 York as assistant professor of botany at Brown University, and 

 of Dr. Anna Starr's appointment as instructor in botany at 

 Mount Holyoke College. 



On four successive Fridays, beginning October 13, Wilhelm 

 Ludwig Johannsen, professor of plant physiology in the Uni- 

 versity of Copenhagen, willlecture on the "Modern Principles of 

 Heredity," in No. 305 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia L'niversity, 

 at 4:10 P. M. The subjects will be "The Problem of Personal 

 Characters," ."The Problem of Unit Factors," "Problems of 

 Correlation and Sex," and "The Problems of New Biotypes." 

 The lectures are open to the public, but the doors will be closed 

 five minutes after the beginning of each discussion. 



According to the New York Evening Post (October 7) the 

 regents of the University of Wisconsin have appointed E. M. 

 Gilbert assistant professor of botany, and W. N. Steil, E. T- 

 Bartholemew, and Alban Stewart instructors, to fill the positions 

 occupied by W. G. Marquette and A. B. Stout, who have come 

 to Columbia University with Professor R. A. Harper, the re- 

 cently appointed Torrey professor of botany at that institution. 



From the same source we learn of the appointment of Miss 

 Helene M. Boas as ah assistant in botany at Barnard College. 



Professor H. C. Cowles of the University of Chicago was one 



