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these journals. He would be pleased to receive from authors copies 
of their articles on all botanical subjects pure or applied. 
The work is to be confined to the fruit-growing region of western New 
York, lying north and west of Cayuga Lake. 
E EIGHTH SEASON of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood’s 
Hole, Mass., will be opened on June 1st. Instruction in botany will 
be in charge of W. A. Setchell, instructor in botany, Yale University, 
and W. J. V. Osterhout, instructor in botany, Brown University. 
Among special lecturers we note the following names of botanists: G. 
F. Atkinson, J. M. Coulter, J. M. Macfarlane, William Trelease, and 
on. 
enzorg, J ope this does not mean that the too slight recog- 
nition hitherto accorded to botany at Johns Hopkins is to be discon- 
tinued is very important that botanical instruction, and that of 
the local committee is Prof. W. W. 
S n oaks have been pub- 
lished by Dr. C. S. Sargent in Garden and Forest (March 6th). Anew 
white oak (Q. Toumeyt), from the mountains of southeastern Arizona, 
figured; 
great leaf variation of Q. dumosa is pointed out, including Q. AZac- 
Donaldii Greene, and Engelmann’s var. du//afa is changed to revolut 
