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many ways. From the faii-shaped leaves tlie so-called "ola paper" 

 is prepared. This is extensively nsed by the natives of Sonthern 

 India and IvTorthern Ceylon for the transcription of native texts, 

 and many ancient Pali docnments of Palmyra and Talipot palm 

 leaves are still preserved in the temples of these conntries. 



A small experimental plot is nsed for economic plants, while 

 across the Mahaweli Ganga is the large cx})erini('nf station <»f 

 Ceylon, which will he described later on. 



One of the noteworthy trees growing near tlu^ l)ank of the 

 river is the paper mnlberry (Bruussoiwtla papyri fcra). From 

 the inner bark of this tree pa])er is mannfactnred in Japan and 

 China, and the ''tapa cloth" of the Sonth Sea Islands is ponnded 

 out from the same material by the natives of that region. 



(To he continued.) 



Mr. Edward F. Bigelow, of Stamford, Conn., one of onr 

 most devoted promulgators of the nature study idea, has lieen 

 unanimously elected President of the Agassiz Association. Mr. 

 Bigelow succeeds Mr. Harlan 11. Ballard, who has been Presi- 

 dent since the organization of tlie association, in Lenox, Mass., 

 in 1875. 



Prof. J. J. Thoriiher -\y\\\ s])('n(l the month of August in 

 Botanical work in Northern Arizona. 



Prof. William Trelease, who has held the chair of l)otany 

 in Washington University since 1S85, received the honorary de- 

 gree of doctor of laws from that unversity at the commencement 

 commemorating its fiftieth anniversary. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal will be absent from the Desert Lab- 

 oratory during July and early August, making visits to Chicago, 

 ISTew York, Boston, Woods Hole, and to various ])laces iu the 

 field. Mail for him mav be addressed in care of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington during this period. 



Prof. D. H. CampheJl, of Stanford LTniversity, is visiting 

 Ann Arbor, Detroit, Washington and ISTew York during the sum- 

 mer vacation. 



Mr. Charles Louis Pollard, well known to lovers of wihl 

 flowers, has been appointed curator of the Staten Island Asso- 



