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of Montana. A score of courses are offered, many of them of 
a strictly botanical nature. The course is free and information 
thereto may be obtained from Professor Kirkwood, at Missoula, 
Montana. 
Dr. Eng. Warming, director of the Botanic Museum and Gar- 
den, and Professor of Botany at the University of Copenhagen, 
resigned from his office December 31, 1911. His successor is 
Professor C. Raunkiaer. : 
At Cornell University Mr. M. Ishikama has been appointed 
an assistant in botany. 
We learn from Nature (December 21) that Dr. D. T. Mac- 
Dougal lectured before the Royal Geographical Society on De- 
cember 18, on the North American Deserts. 
Mr. Percy Wilson, of the New York Botanical Garden, has 
returned from Cuba, where he has been continuing the explora- 
tions of that institution in Pinar del Rio. 
At a meeting of the board of estimate and apportionment of 
New York City on Thursday, January 18, contract was let for 
the construction of the first sections of the laboratory building 
and plant houses of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
At the Washington meeting, held during Christmas week, 
Prof. L. R. Jones was elected president of the Botanical Society 
of America, and Prof. D. S. Johnson, vice-president of Section 
С Ac ASA. S. 
The following were elected officers of the Torrey Club at the 
annual meeting held at the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory on Tuesday, January 9: President, E. S. Burgess; Vice 
Presidents, J. H. Barnhart and H. M. Richards; Secretary and 
Treasurer, B. O. Dodge; Editor-in-Chief, P. Dowell, with the fol- 
lowing acting on the board of editors: J. H. Barnhart, Jean 
Broadhurst, E. D. Clark, A. W. Evans, R. A. Harper, M. A. 
Howe, Н. M. Richards, and N. Taylor. Dr. Mansfield was 
elected delegate to the Council of the New York Academy of 
Sciences. 
