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tudes of the West Indies and that of the mountains of South 
America. 
After discussion of the various papers, adjournment followed. 
MARSHALL A. Howe, 
Secretary pro tem. 
NEWS ITEMS 
We learn from Science that Mr. J. C. Th. Uphof, of Amster- 
dam, author of “ Die Pflanzengattungen," has been appointed 
gardener for the Botanical Garden at the Michigan Agricultural 
College. Не will also do work in connection with the her- 
barium. He is expected to enter upon his duties in the latter 
part of February. 
Dr. Jean Baptiste Edouard Bornet, well known for his 
morphological and taxonomic writings on the algae, died at his 
home in Paris on December 18, 1911, aged 83 years. He was 
associated with Gustave Thuret in the publication of the 
classical “ Notes Algologiques" and “ Etudes Phycologiques ”’ 
which did much to lay the foundations of an accurate knowledge 
of the structure and modes of reproduction of the marine algae. 
Figures from the detailed and beautifully artistic plates of these 
works have been familiar to students of the standard botanical 
textbooks for the past thirty years. 
At the University of Pennsylvania Mr. F. W. Pennell has 
been granted a fellowship in botany and Mr. J. Y. Pennypacker 
a botanical scholarship. 
Dr. C. B. Robinson, for several years connected with the 
Philippine Bureau of Sience, has returned to New York. His 
address, for the present, will be the New York Botanical Garden, 
where he will continue his studies on the flora of the Philippines, 
and on the family VACCINIACEAE. 
