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for Brown University, which, however, he was unable to attend. For 

 many years he was a manufacturing jeweller, but found time for 

 scholarly pursuits and was widely read in the natural sciences. His 

 keen interest in botany dated back at least to his twentieth year. 

 His botanical collecting was done chiefly in Rhode Island, but 

 extended to the White Mountains, which he visited about ten times. 

 He made also smaller collections in northern Vermont and in Tomp- 

 kins County, New York. During 1890 and 1891 Mr. Bennett was 

 curator of the Herbarium of Brown University, and from 1891 to 

 1894 the curator of the Herbarium and Museum of Economic ]}ot- 

 any at the same institution. In 189 1 he received an honorary 

 degree of Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. In 1888 he 

 published under the auspices of the Franklin Society his "Plants of 

 Rhode Island, being an enumeration of plants growing without culti- 

 vation in the State of Rhode Island." This publication of i 28 jxiges, 

 dealing both with the flowering plants and several of the groups of 

 cryptogams, is still the most comprehensive catalogue (;f Rhode 

 Island plants. Mr. Bennett's herbarium of flowering plants has 

 long been incorporated with the Herbarium of Brown University. 

 It IS said that his cryptogams were sold to the Brooklyn Institute — 

 B. L. R. 



A New Sunflower for Mainf.— On September 7th, 1903, Mr. 

 F. M. Billings and I were botanizing along the water front of P>angor 

 between the Maine Central Railroatl and the wharves at City Point. 

 A cluster of sunflower plants averaging 20 inches in height attracted 

 our attention. Only one of these was in bloom and one had gone to 

 seed, while the others showed no tendency to blossom. The flower- 

 nig specimen was collected and submitted to Mr. M. L. Fernakl (^f 

 the Cray Herbarium for identification. He pronounces it to be 

 Jlcliaiithiis fnaxnniliaiu asperrimiis Gia\-, a plant not previously 

 reported from the State. I am inclined to believe the seed was intro. 

 duced with grain from the West. — O. W. Knight, Bangor Maine. 



The Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine will hold its tenth 

 annual meeting and field day at Fort Kent, Aroostook County, July 

 6th, 1904. Extremely low rates will be granted by the Maine Central 

 and Bangor & Aroostook Railroads. The Hotel Dickey at Fort Kent 



