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GENERAL ITEMS. 



Dr. Da\icl Griffiths, expert in charge of field management of grasses 

 and forage plants in the Bureau of Plant Industry, and Mr. E. L. Mor- 

 ris, special agent of the same office, have left for field work in Nevada, 

 Idaho and Oregon, They expect to take an overland trip from Win- 

 nemucca, Nevada, and investigate the condition of the ranges of eastern 

 Oregon and western Idaho. 



As we go to press we learn with deep regret of the death of Dr. 

 Charles Mohr, the veteran botanist of Mobile, Alabama, at his late 

 home in Asheville, N. C. Dr. Mohr's new flora of Alabama had just 

 been completed, ready for the press, and he had been living in the hope 

 of witnessing the fruition of his labors. We shall publish a more ex- 

 tended tribute at a later date. 



One of the most attractive features of the California exhibit at the 

 Pan-American Exposition is the collection of fruits, nuts, etc., sent by 

 the business men of Los Angeles county. A prominent feature of this 

 collection and the one that first attracts attention is a full sized ele- 

 phant built of English walnuts, that is not only attractive in itself, but is 

 typical of this young giant industry, as it indicates the present "jumbo" 

 importance of what was but a short time ago merely an experiment. 

 Fourteen years has sufficed to develop the business of growing English 

 walnuts in California from nothing to its present international imi)ort- 

 ance. 



We regret to record the death, in New York City on Jul}^ 7th, of 

 Dr. Theodore Greely White, Assistant in Physics in Columbia Univer- 

 sity. Dr. White will be remembered by former readers of the Asa 

 Gray Bulletin as most active in his work for the journal, and for the 

 Asa Gray Memorial Chapter of the Agassiz Association. While his 

 professional studies had been mainlj^ in the field of geology and phys- 

 ics, he had devoted considerable attention to botany, and was the 

 author of a revision of the North American wild peas of the genus 

 Lafhyrus, as well as of numerous popular articles published in the Asa 

 Gray Bulletin. 



