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ciatioii of Arts and Sciences, and may be addressed at Xew 

 Brig-liton, Staten Island. 



The June number of "Discovery" contains an interesting 

 acconnt of a visit to "Watlings Island by Drs. Britton and Mills- 

 paugh, in wliieli are some interesting notes as to Columbus' first 

 visit to this island. An agave native to the island is figurcth 



The May number of the same magazine contains an article 

 by Dr. MacDougal, "A Mirage Realized," in which a brief ac- 

 count is given of the recent explorations of the Salton Sea. 



The Biological Station of (lie Unlrcisity of Mo)itana at Big- 

 Fork will hold a session from July 11 to Aug. 10. Mr. Thomas 

 A. Bonser of the Spokane High Schools is in charge of the botan- 

 ical work, and Miss Gertrude E. ISTorton, of East Helena, of the 

 nature study course. 



Prof. F. E. Lloyd, formerly of Teachers' College, Colundua 

 University, and recently of the Desert Botanical Laboratory and 

 the Arizona Experiment Station, has been ap}>ointed to take 

 charge of certain agricultural experiments at Hacienda de Ced- 

 ras, Mazapil, Zacateeas, Mexico, and will take up his new posi- 

 tion in a short time. 



Dr. Hermann von- Schrenlr has resigned his position as ])a- 

 thologist in charge of investigations of timber diseases and meth- 

 ods for preventing the same, in the Mississippi Valley Laborato- 

 ry of the IT, S. Department of Agriculture, and has opened a 

 technical laboratory and consulting office, for the prosecution of 

 investigations into the uses of timber. Associated with him are 

 Messrs. E. B. Fulks and Alfred L. Kammerer, two competent 

 chemists who have recently been engaged in prosecuting investi- 

 gations in regard to the preservation of timber for various rail- 

 way companies. Ilie address of the new firm is: von Schrenk, 

 Fulks and Kammerer, Consulting Tind)cr Engineers, St. Lou. is. 

 Mo. 



Dr. Heinrlcli Hasselbring. recently assistant in Plant Pa- 

 thology in the University of Chicago, has been appointed Botan- 

 ist in the Experiment Station of Cuba, at Santiago de las Vegas, 

 and will immediately take up his new duties. 



