160 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
A BARE STATEMENT of the facts leading to the closing of the New York 
State College of Forestry is given by the editor in the Forestry Quarterly.2: 42. 
November 1903. This statement throws little direct light upon the matter, 
though one may read between the lines. Apparently the governor's veto of 
the appropriation for the College was secured by the “pull”’ of certain owners 
of Adirondack lands whose estates adjoined the reserve, because they were. 
not pleased with the logging and other operations inaugurated by the College. 
This is practically acknowledged by Governor Odell in his recent message to, 
the legislature. From this message it is apparent that ‘the veto was not based 
upon condemnation of the practice of the College by expert foresters, but 
upon the “disapproval” of its work by “many citizens of the state.” The 
plea he makes is that the object of the state was to conserve the water supply 
by retaining the forest cover, while the College was completely denuding 
its experimental forest! Surely the people of New York will not accept such 
a worthless defense. 
THE CATALOGUE DIVISION of the Library of Congress has sent to press, 
and will issue shortly, through the office of card distribution, a set of analytics 
for Engler-Prantl’s Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien. Each article (family) i9 
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card, which contains fuli bibliographical information, including exact dates of 
publication for undated signatures. Beside subject headings, all added 
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e cards covering the unfinished portions of the work will be issued 
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the office of card distribution. 
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Christian Bay. Owing to the exacting demands of necessary work in-other 
directions, the Library has so far undertaken but little work of this character 
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