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now in press. Every encouragement should be given for the comple- 
tion of this magnificent work. 
Dr. J. P. Lotsy, formerly at Johns Hopkins University, has ac- 
cepted a position with Dr. Treub, at Buitensorg, Java. It is said that 
the Maemillans will shortly issue an important work by him on the 
Morphology of Reproduction in Cryptogams. 
Dr. James Ellis Humphrey will be instructor in Botany at Johns 
Hopkins the coming year. It is much to be regretted that this great 
university cannot see its way clear to the founding of a chair of Botany. 
W. T. Swingle, of the Division of Vegetable Physiology and Path- 
ology, U. S. Department of Agriculture, has secured leave of absence, 
and will spend a year or two at German Universities. He goes first to 
Strasburger at Bonn, and will subsequently study with Göbel at 
Munich. 
President and Mrs, Fairchild, of the State Agriculture College, Man- 
hattan, Kansas, spent the summer travelling in Great Britain and on 
the Continent. Mrs. Kedzie accompanied them. 
David G. Fairchild, formerly of the Division of Vegetable Physiology 
and Pathology, in the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has spent the 
last two years studying botany at various European centers—Naples, 
Breslau, Berlin, Miinster. He is now studying fungi with Brefeld, 
and contemplates spending the winter at the great tropical botanic 
garden at Buitensorg in Java. 
During the summer. there were several changes in the personelle of 
the Division of Animal Pathology, in the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Dr. Theobald Smith, for a long time 
Chief of Division and widely known on account of his bacteriological 
researches, has become Bacteriologist to the Massachusetts State Board 
of Health and Lecturer at Harvard ; Dr. V. A. Moore takes his place, 
and Dr. P. A. Fish, of Cornell Univ., becomes Dr. Moore’s assistant. 
Dr. C. W. Stiles, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. De- 
partment of Agriculture, has returned from a two months trip to 
Europe, made partly for the sake of attending the International 
Zoological Congress at Leiden. 
Dr. Volney M. Spalding has resumed his duties as Professor of Botany 
in the University of Michigan, having recently returned from a two 
years’ sojourn at German Universities, most of which time was spent 
with Pfeffer in Leipsic, at the British Museum, and with Brefeld in 
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