96 Rhodora (May 
our too extensive mass of publications in which the tremendously 
interesting facts of distribution are replaced by vague and un- 
supported statements. That so many authors dealing with phy- 
togeography are content to draw their deductions from inaccurate 
data is amazing, for, in this subject as in all others, as Byron long 
ago asserted, “truth is always strange,—stranger than fiction."—M. 
L. FERNALD. 
Dr. Frank SHIPLEY Cours, one of the original members of the 
New ENaraAND BOTANICAL CLUB, for three years its president. and 
for more than twenty-one years a faithful, effective, and highly 
valued member of the Editorial Staff of Iuropona, died suddenly on 
May 25th at New Haven, Connecticut in his seventy-third year. A 
biographical sketch and an account of his botanical activities will 
appear in an early issue of this Journal. 
Vol. 22, no. 256, including pages 57 ta 76, was issued 7 May, 1920. 
