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region. The year following his residence at Ann xVrbor 

 found Mr. Gifford at Johns Hopkins Hospital, studying 

 bacteriology, accompanying the Johns Hopkins expedition 

 to Jamaica, in the spring and summer of that year. The 

 three years following he was Instructor in Botany at 

 Swarthmore College until the end of his third year, when 

 he was allowed leaye of absence for four months, which he 

 spent in Louisiana, British Honduras, Yucatan, Guatemala 

 and Spanish Honduras. In the spring of 1894, Mr. Gifford 

 was appointed Forester of the Geological Suryey of New 

 Jersey, and has since been deyoting his entire energies to 

 the prosecution of this laudable object, the protection and 

 reforestration of the timber lands of New Jersey. As editor 

 of The Forester, he has had the opportunity of molding public 

 opinion both in his own and neighboring states in further- 

 ance of the forestry cause. His " Report on Forestr}^ " from 

 the Annual Report of the State Geologist, for 1894, is both a 

 yaluable contribution to botany, especially ecological botany, 

 and to forestry. Mr. Gifford, haying pursued the forestiy 

 course, in the German Forestry School at ^Munich, will take 

 his degree from that institution in 1898-99, as a Doctor of 

 Forestry. A few articles froilx-^his pen haye appeared in 

 Garden and Forest, as follows : 



1. " Distribution of the White Cedar in New Jersey." — IX : 63. 



2. " Reforesting Waste Lands in Holland."— IX : 423. 



ARTHUR N. LEEDS. 



Arthur X. Leeds, born in Philadelphia, October 14, 

 1870; educated at Westtown School and Hayerford Col- 

 lege, graduating B. S. in 1889, and M. A., 1890 ; Treasurer of 

 the Philadelphia Botanical Club, member of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences. 



