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twenty, and the work will be along ecological lines. Most of the work will 
be in the neighborhood of Flathead lake. where the state biological station is 
located. 
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION for the Advancement of Science will meet 
at Denver, Colorado, August 23-28, rgot. A preliminary program of the 
meetings of section G (Botany) will be issued about July 15. One day will 
be given up to a joint session with the Botanical Society of America. It is 
also planned to devote one day’s program to the subject “Adaptations of 
desert plants.”’ 
Dr. F. E. CLEMENTS is to spend the summer in the Pike’s peak region 
in Colorado, engaged in ecological studies of the flora. He will be accom- 
panied by a party of botanists from the University of Nebraska, numbering a 
dozen or more. Instruments for accurate observation of ecological factors 
have been provided for the party. 
THE LATEST Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, issued May 27 
last, contains much information of interest to botanists. The planting of the 
grounds is proceeding rapidly, and the present showing of species grown 
during the year is as follows: herbaceous grounds 2300, fruticetum 450, 
salicetum 40, arboretum 220, and viticetum 60. During the year 48,895 
specimens have been added to the herbaria. 
JOHN J. THORNBER has been appointed special botanical collector for the 
University of Nebraska for the summer of 1901. He is to accompany the 
field party of the United States Forestry Division now at work in Nebraska, 
and is to act as its botanist, at the same time being the botanical representative 
of the university. In addition to the collection of specimens, he is to make 
careful ecological studies throughout the territory traversed. 
UNDER A commission from the United States government, Dr. H. von 
Schrenk, of the Shaw School of Botany, is to spend the summer in Europe, 
in an investigation of the problems connected with the decay of railroad ties 
on the principal roads, this work being done in connection with an extensive 
series of investigations into the same subject which he is undertaking for the 
Department of Agriculture and in which the principal American railroads 
are cooperating. 
On MAY THIRTIETH there occurred the unveiling of a memorial tablet to 
Asa Gray in the Hall of Fame of the University of New York. The ceremony 
was committed to the Botanical Society of America. Most appropriately Dr. 
B. L. Robinson, professor of systematic botany in Harvard University and 
curator of the Gray herbarium, a ae N. L. Britton, nese of the New 
York Botanical Garden, Pp I f the society, 
Dr. Robinson unveiling the tablet. 
SUMMER FIELD WORK will be undertaken by the staff of the School of Botany 
of the University of Texas as follows: One party will make an exploration 
