NEWS ITEMS The new keeper of the Kiel Botanical Institute and garden is Dr. Ernst Küster, of Halle. After the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909) is over, the forestry building is to be given to the University of Washington. Dr. Charles E. Bessey, dean of the industrial college of the University of Nebraska, has been made head dean of the University. A biological station is to be established at Devil's Lake, North Dakota, under the charge of Professor M. A. Brannon of the State University. Mr. J. R. Johnston, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has recently returned from Cuba, where he has been studying the budrot of the cocoanut. Field classes in the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, are to be conducted this spring by M. J. G. Jack, for those interested in native and foreign trees and shrubs of New England. The agricultural colleges and experiment stations of Europe are to be visited this summer by Professor F. L. Stevens, of the North Carolina College and Experiment Station. Among the instructors of the Oklahoma Agricultural College affected by the Board's summary and wholesale dismissal of April, 1908, are Professor O. M. Morris, botany and horticulture, and Professor E. E. Balcomb, agriculture. McGill University at the opening of McDonald College will confer the degree of LL.D. upon two members of the United States Department of Agriculture: Hon. James Wilson, Secretary, and Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Chief Forester. The Luther Burbank's Products Company which, according to the March TORREYA, was to distribute Mr. Burbank's new varieties, was not successfully launched. Mr. Burbank will still, fortunately, continue the distribution of his new varieties. Dr. George T. Moore, formerly connected with the Department of Agriculture, has accepted the newly created professor ship of plant physiology and applied botany in the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University at St. Louis. The Marine Biological Laboratory, situated at Woods Hole, Mass., gives the usual six-week courses beginning June 30. The courses in botany are in morphology and taxonomy; each course requires the full time of the student; the fee is $50. The laboratory is open the entire summer to investigators. Professor George L. Goodale, of Harvard University, with which institution he has been connected for more than thirty years, will retire this June from active service. Mr. Oakes Ames, for several years actively connected with the Harvard Botanical Garden, has, since the resignation of Professor Goodale, been made director of the Garden. The George Washington Memorial Association is initiating a movement to erect in Washington a great memorial building in recognition of George Washington's expressed desire to promote institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. The building "will contain a great hall or auditorium and rooms for large congresses" besides "rooms for small and large meetings, office rooms and students' research rooms." A James Fletcher memorial fund is being collected by the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. The suggestions as to the form it shall take are a fountain, a statue, and a bust or portrait in appropriate places in Ottawa, and a bursary at some Canadian University. Contributions may be sent to the Secretary-Treasurer of the memorial committee, Mr. Arthur Gibson, Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa. The University of Colorado is going to establish a summer laboratory for botany and zoology at Tolland, Colorado. The laboratory will be in charge of the regular instructing staff of the university, and there will be courses in elementary biology, plant anatomy, plant taxonomy, and ecology. The location of the laboratory, altitude 8,889 feet, will allow students to study conveniently the plants and animals of all the different life zones from plains to alpine heights. The bronze memorial tablet reproduced below has been placed in the New York Botanical Garden fern herbarium, which, as a tribute to Professor Underwood, is to be called the Underwood Fern Herbarium. TORREYA AND NATURE-STUDY REVIEW Special combined price $1.50 for the year 1909 This special offer is good only as long as the publishers of the above journals can supply back numbers of early 1909 issues. In no case will the subscription be extended beyond December of this year. The offer is limited to new subscribers of either journals and also is not open to members of the American Nature-Study Society, of which THE NATURE-STUDY REVIEW is the official journal free to members. 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Single copies (30 cts.) will be furnished only when not breaking complete volumes. (2) MEMOIRS The MEMOIRS, established 1889, are published at irregular intervals. Volumes 1-11 and 13 are now completed; Nos. 1 and 2 of Vol. 12 and No. 1 of Vol. 14 have been issued. The subscription price is fixed at $3.00 per volume in advance. The numbers can also be purchased singly. A list of titles of the individual papers and of prices will be furnished on application. (3) The Preliminary Catalogue of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta reported as growing within one hundred miles of New York, 1888. Price, $1.00. Correspondence relating to the above publications should be addressed to DR. WILLIAM MANSFIELD College of Pharmacy 115 W. 68TH STREET NEW YORK CITY |