NEWS ITEMS William Henry Brewer, professor of agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University since 1864, died on November 2, in the eighty-third year of his age. Professor Brewer was first assistant on the geological survey of California from 1860 to 1864, had special charge of the botanical collections of this survey, and with Sereno Watson and Asa Gray wrote the "Botany of California," setting forth the botanical results of the survey in two quarto volumes. Several Californian species bear his name. Dr. Melchior Treub, for many years director of the famous botanical garden at Buitenzorg, Java, and director of the Department of Agriculture for the Dutch East Indies, died at SaintRaphaël, Var, France, on October 3. He was born near Leyden in 1851. Dr. Treub was editor of the important Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg, beginning with its second volume in 1885 and retaining this editorship even since his retirement about a year ago. He was the author of many noteworthy botanical papers, covering a wide range of topics. David Pearce Penhallow, the botanist and professor of botany at McGill University, Montreal, died October 26, on board the steamship Lake Manitoba bound for Liverpool. Professor Penhallow was born at Kittery Point, Me., May 25, 1854. He was graduated from the Massachusetts State College in 1873. In 1876, Professor Penhallow went to Japan and became professor of chemistry and botany in the Imperial College of Agriculture, Sapporo, Japan. He remained there until 1880, when he returned to this country and became instructor in physiological Botany in Prof. Gray's department of Harvard University. In 1882 he went to the Houghton Farm Scientific and Experimental Station as botanist and chemist. From here he went to McGill University in 1883. Professor Penhallow was a member of all the prominent botanical and natural history societies. 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