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AT the meeting of the Linnean Society of London on May 12, the following were elected foreign members:-Prof. Klas Robert Fries, director of the Botanic Garden, Stockholm, who has made very important contributions to our knowledge of the flora of South America, chiefly of the Argentine, Bolivia, and Brazil. His work on the tropical American Anonacece, Amarantaoece, and Colamniferce (Mal-vales) and his monographs of Wissadula and Petunia are especially noteworthy. He has also done valuable work on the flora of Rhodesia, the Congo, etc., and has made contributions to mycology. Prof. Eduard Fischer, professor of botany at the University and director of the Botanical Institute, Bern, distinguished for his works on a wide range of mycological subjects since 1883. He has devoted especial attention to the Gasteromycetes, on which he contributed the section in Engler and Prantl's “Pflanzenfamilien”. He has produced monographic studies of the Rusts of Switzerland, and carried out extensive studies of the biology of heterœcious rusts. He collaborated with E. Gümann in the most complete work on the biology of parasitic fungi that has yet been published. Prof. Ludwig Jost, director of the Botanical Institute and Gardens, University of Heidelberg, known for his work as a teacher of plant physiology and his influence on the development of his subject. Prof, Émile Topsent, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy, University of Strasbourg, the leading authority in the world on sponges. His first paper was published in 1887, since when he has published a number of papers and several important books, including reports for the Prince of Monaco. His large quarto volume—“Campagnes …”, Monaco, 1928—is the most up-to-date monograph on sponges.
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New Foreign Members of the Linnean Society. Nature 129, 753 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129753a0
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