84' ERYTHEA. 



best of these is "How a Squash -Plant Gets out of the Seed," 

 by L. H. Bailey. Some of the other titles run like this : " Four 

 Apple -Twigs," "A Children's Garden," "The Leaves and Acorns 

 of our Common Oaks." The drawings are of a good character, 

 but in "The Life -History of a Toad" the artist has taken to the 

 Aubrey Beardsley type of illustration, which looks a trifle curious, 

 and would seem ill-advised in a nature-study lesson. 



The Legislature of the state of New York has made a gen- 

 erous appropriation to Cornell University for the foundation of 

 a College of Forestry. The Cornell Board of Trustees has chosen 

 Dr. B. E. Fernow, chief of the Division of Forestry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, to be Director of the new college. 



Dr. D. Morris, the Assistant Director of Kew Gardens, has 

 been appointed to the important position of Imperial Commissioner 

 of Agriculture for the British West Indies. This office has recently 

 been created with a view to relieving the agricultural depression 

 in these naturally fertile islands, which is largely due to ignorance 

 of the principles of agriculture and of the needs of the world's 

 markets. It is no exaggeration to say that no better man could 

 have been chosen for the post. Dr. Morris was for some years 

 prior to joining the Kew staff, Director of Public Gardens and 

 Plantations in Jamaica, and in that capacity made himself con- 

 versant with the peculiar needs and difficulties of the British West 

 Indies. While at Kew, his attention has been largely devoted to 

 Economic Botany and Agriculture, and he has in this way been 

 brought in touch not only with botanists and agriculturists from 

 all parts of the globe, but also with progressive merchants and 

 manufacturers; thus he has become familiar with the climatic 

 conditions and agricultural products of all the British possessions 

 in the tropics, and with the relation between supply and demand 

 of the leading plant products — qualifications of the utmost impor- 

 tance in this new sphere. — B. J. D. 



