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The University of Vermont has received from Dr. W. Seward Webb, 



one of its trustees, the sum of $6000 for the purchase of the herbarium of 

 C, G. Pringle. 



In connection with the Royal Botanical Gardens at Peradeniya an 

 experiment station has recently been established for trying on a large scale 

 new products not yet staples. The purchased estate contains 550 acres. 



At a recent meeting of Congress the serial publication known as 

 "Contributions to the U, S. National Herbarium" was transferred from the 

 Department of Agriculture to the National Museum, with a special appropri- 

 ation of $7000. This provides for an editorial assistant and an artist, and 

 will enable the Museum to republish certain numbers which are out of print 

 and in demand. 



At the Pittsburg meeting of the Botanical Club of the A. A. A. S., the 



Committee on Nomenclature made the following report through its chairman, 

 Dr. N, L. Britton : " The committee reports that it has held meetings Decem- 

 ber 2g, igoo, and June 30, 1902, and that through a sub-committee has drawn 

 up the basis for a codification of the rules of nomenclature, including the 

 determination of generic types, as previously authorized. The committee 

 recommends that it be given authority to ask the cooperation of other 

 botanists and zoologists in the further consideration of the subjects referred 

 to it, and through their aid to prepare a list of as many types of North 

 American genera as may be possible for presentation, with its report, at a 

 future meeting.'' 



At the Pittsburg meeting of the Botanical Club of the A- A. A. S., 

 C. L. Shear presided, and F. L. Stevens was appointed secretary-treasurer: 

 The following program was presented : H. L. Bollev, An anthracnose of 

 flax attacking the embryo within the seed coats ; N. L. Britton, Carpellary 

 structure of Sedttm piilchellum. An undescribed species of Hydrophyllum ; 

 Mel. T. Cook, Notes on material for class demonstration ; O. F. Cook. The 

 sterility of coffee varieties. Facts from the history of the cocoa-palm ; 

 Arthur Hollick, A bud from a buried cypress swamp; A. D. Hopkins, A 

 blank for phenological notes; F. E. Lloyd, Mutual variation in opposite 

 leaves, Vivipary in Podocarpus, A cheap and convenient laboratory aquarium, 

 Museum methods; demonstration of life histories; C. L. Pollard, The 

 Gray polypod in Washington, D. C; H. von Schrenck, On the germination 



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