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to write for rules and terms of exchange to J. Dérfler, Wien, Austria, 
IIT. Barichgasse 36. 
Mr. O. F. Coox will shortly return to Liberia to continue his 
studies of tropical fungi and other plants. 
Mr. D. T. MacDoveat, of the University of Minnesota, has re- 
turned from his trip abroad. ost of his time in Europe was spent 
in the laboratory of Professor Pfeffer at Leipzig in the study of the 
transmission of stimuli. 
rawn by members of the Association and forwarded as they may di- 
ct. 
Mr. E. P. BIcKNELL (Bull. Torr. 22: 351) has described two new 
species of Sanicu/a from the eastern United States, dissociating them 
from the well known S. Canadensis and S. Marylandica, and naming 
them S. gregaria and S. trifoliafa. In the same number Mr. Jo 
Small continues his studies in our southeastern flora, describing as 
hew a Steglingia, a Rumex, and a Acer. 
Mr. J. G. Lemmon has issued a third (pocket) edition of his very 
handy book on “West-American cone-bearers.” The plea for good 
English names is strongly put, a thing which will be best established 
by just such a book as this, for it should find a place in the pocket of 
every one coming in contact with our western conifers who is at all 
ap in distinguishing them. Mr. Lemmon’s address is Oakland, 
aliforni 
Placed, and the hole closed with a wood plug. Many persons in the 
Connecticut valley have been victimized. We understand that the 
State right for New Jersey was sold for $6,000. Mr. L. O. Howard, 
chief of the Division of Entomology, has exposed the fraud. 
