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The Plant World. 



The New York Botanical Garden offers the following 

 prizes for essays not exceeding 5,000 words, from the income 

 of the Caroline and Olivia E. Stokes Fund for the Preserva- 

 tion of Native Plants: (1) $40.00, (2) 25.00, (3) $15.00. Essays 

 must be typewritten in duplicate and must reach the Garden 

 not later than June 20, 1909. 



The Henry Shaw School of Botany of Washington Univer- 

 sity, St. Louis, announces greatly increased provision for grad- 

 uate instruction and for research. In addition to the Engel- 

 mann professorship held by Dr. Trelease, the assistant professor- 

 ship held by Dr. Coulter and the honorary post of plant patholo- 

 gist at the Missouri Botanical Garden held by Dr. von Schrenk, 

 a professorship of plant physiology has been created to which 

 Dr. George T. Moore has been called, and provision has been made 

 for two research fellowships in botany, besides a teaching fellow- 

 ship to which Mr. C. D. Learn has recently been appointed. With 

 the equipment in living plants (upwards of 11,000 forms), her- 

 barium, of over half a million specimens, library with 58,500 

 books and pamphlets, and a well designed fire-proof building 

 erected a year ago, the greater part of which is being equipped 

 for laboratory use, unusual opportunities are offered for botan- 

 ical investigation. 



A course in plant breeding has been inaugurated at the 

 University of Michigan by Dr. Henri De Leng-Hus, instructor 

 in botany in that institution and formerly assistant to Professor 

 Hugo De Yries of Amsterdam. The Michigan Alumnus shows 

 from the records of its graduate school that there are in the 

 Department of Botany at the present time 25 elections of 

 graduate work as against 19 in Greek, and 68 in Forestry, as 

 compared with 35 in Latin. To one who took the classical 

 course in that institution in earlier days because nothing else 

 really worth while was offered, these changes appear^significant. 



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