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of animals are second only to Harvey's work on the circulation. - 
In the domain of plant physiology he is equally great. He 
treated the manifestations of life as things to be weighed, meas- 
ured and analyzed in the laboratory. It is this point of view 
that gives his work so modern a character and entitles him to be 
considered one of the founders of a rational science of biology. 
Although he loved science for its own sake, it is equally clear 
that he was dominated by a permanent desire to use his knowl- 
edge for the benefit of his fellow-creatures.”’ 
It is a pleasure to report that on Wednesday the twenty-eighth 
of February, at the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of 
the University of Pittsburgh, the honorary degree of Doctor of 
Laws was conferred on Nathaniel Lord Britton. 
A new botanical museum for the University of Christiania, 
Norway, is being erected and will be.ready for occupancy in the 
autumn of 1913. 
Dr. C. N. Jensen, fellow in plant pathology, Cornell University, 
has been appointed professor of botany and plant pathology in 
Utah Agricultural College and Experiment Station and entered 
on his duties on February 1. 
We learn from Science that Professor F. O. Grover of Oberlin 
College ‘‘discovered several unknown plants and extended the 
known distribution of other species," during last summer's work 
at Monhegan Island, Maine. Near Moosehead Lake, Carex 
crinita Portereii, was collected for the first time since the early 
seventies. 
According to the New York Evening Post (March 2) Mis: 
Helen Ashurst Choate has been promoted from an assistant to 
instructor in botany at Smith College. X 
Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton, accompanied by Mr. J. F. Cowell 
of the Buffalo Botanic Garden, sailed for eastern Cuba, on March 
second, to continue botanical explorations in the vicinity of the 
Sierra Maestra. 
