436 Macfarlane on Publications. 
was appointed Harrison Fellow in Botany in 1899. The 
above subject was outlined and assigned to him, along the 
lines as now being published, by the Professor of Botany, the 
entire study being intended as an original investigation and | 
thesis. From the abundant facilities furnished by the Uni- 
versity Garden and the Dreer collection of water lilies, the 
subject grew in importance, so that the author felt warranted 
in presenting the taxonomic part alone as a thesis for the 
Ph. D. degree. He was then awarded the Harrison Senior 
Fellowship in Botany for two years, and owing to the ample 
leisure that this afforded he was enabled to complete the 
original study in its entirety. This was presented to the 
Carnegie Institution by the writer and was duly accepted for 
publication. Through the interest of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, 
and on permission from Provost Harrison, Dr. Conard then 
spent some time in visiting the European herbaria on the 
Carnegie foundation. He thus secured additional informa- 
tion, which has been incorporated in the work that will 
shortly appear. 
The second of the above monographs is in preparation, and 
will embody the results of study in the field, the laboratory, 
the herbarium and the library of the past twenty years. 
Through action of the Provost and Trustees of the Uni- 
versity the writer was able to devote considerable time dur- 
ing the past spring and summer to investigation of the group 
of the Ascidiaceae in European institutions. The work will 
incorporate these results, and will, it is expected, be published 
as a University Contribution. 
Mr. Louis Krautter’s investigation is now in progress and 
will include a historical, morphological, physiological, taxo- 
nomic and ecological study of the above suggestive genus of 
North American plants. 
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