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We learn from the Times (December 5) that Dr. William Arm- 
strong Buckhout, Professor of Botany and Horticulture at the 
Pennsylvania State College, and one of the oldest members of 
the faculty, died in Philadelphia on Tuesday, December 3, at 
the age of 61 years. He was a Fellow of the American Associ- 
ation for the Advancement of Science and of many other scientific 
societies. Dr. Buckhout had held a professorship since 1871. 
A. Anstruther Lawson (Ph.D. Chicago, 1902), who has been 
a member of the botanical staff of Stanford University, and, 
more recently, of the University of Glasgow, has been appointed 
professor of botany in the University of Sydney, New South 
Wales. 
