NOTES AND COMMENT 



In 1913 the Legislature of the state of CaHfornia provided a fund 

 of $60,000 for the purchase of suitable lands as a site for the Graduate 

 School of Tropical Agriculture and Citrus Experiment Station of the 

 University of California, and also appropriated S100,000 for laboratory 

 buildings and $25,000 foj- director's residence, barns and other minor 

 buildings. A tract of 475 acres was selected in the heart of the orange 

 growing region, 2| miles east of Riverside, California. The buildings 

 provided in the appropriation are now completed and are to be dedi- 

 cated with appropriate ceremonies on March 27. The forenoon will 

 be given up to addresses of general scientific interest by men of national 

 reputation. The Dedication Exercises at the afternoon session will 

 be presided over by Dean T. F, Hunt, of the College of Agriculture, 

 Berkeley, Cal., and will include addresses by President Benjamin Ide 

 Wheeler, of the University of California, Dr. H. J. Webber, Director 

 of the Citrus Experiment Station, and His Excellency, William D. 

 Stephens, Governor of California. An evening reception will be given 

 by Director and Mrs. H. J. Webber at their residence. 



Dr. N. L. Britton has prepared, with the aid of several collabora- 

 tors, an illustrated Flora of Bermuda, which will appear this spring. 

 The volume will contain descriptions and illustrations of all the wild 

 flowering plants, ferns and mosses of these interesting and isolated 

 islands, together with descriptions of the many kinds of cultivated 

 plants in the attractive gardens and public places. Chapters are de- 

 voted to the lichens, fungi and seaweeds, to the botanical and horti- 

 cultural bibliography of the colony, and to the various botanical col- 

 lections that have been made there. 



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