320 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [October 



herbarium of Columbia University to become an expert to the syndicate now 

 engaged in developing the new method of treating starchy grains, etc., 

 recently discovered by Dr. Anderson in the laboratories of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. Dr. Anderson is fitting up a laboratory for the continu- 

 ance of his work at Minneapolis. — Science. 



The Kirby Lumber Company, whose holdings are in southeastern 



Texas, has requested the Bureau of Forestry to prepare a working plan for its 

 lands. The lumbering operations of this company extend over a tract of 

 1,250,000 acres of pine lands, which contain about 80 per cent, of all the long- 

 leaf pine of Texas, This vast single body of virgin forest is uninterrupted 

 except for the clearings around the villages and farms which it encloses. 



The editor of Science for the fifth year has published statistics in 

 regard to the conferring of the degree of doctor of philosophy by American 

 universities. It is of interest to botanists to know that during this period 

 ( 1 898-1 902) fifty-three doctorates in botany have been conferred. The thir- 

 teen conferred during I902 are as follows : W. A. Cannon (Columbia), G. P. 

 Clinton (Harvard), J, W. T. Duval (Michigan), T. C. Frye (Chicago), C. S. 

 Gager (Cornell), C. A. King (Harvard), A. A. Lawson (Chicago), B. E. Liv- 

 ingston (Chicago), Florence M. Lyon (Chicago), K. Miyake (Cornell), E. W. 

 Olive (Harvard), R. H. Pond (Michigan), and C. E. Preston (Harvard). 



During the past summer two ecological parties have been in the field 

 from the University of Chicago. Dr. Henry C. Cowles, with a party of four- 

 teen, has been studying the climatic and edaphic influences on the flora of Mt. 

 Ktaadn, Maine. The results were very satisfactory, since a large number of 

 plants and photographs were collected to supplement the field observations. 

 Mr. Henry N. Whitford, with a party of eight, has been working in the 

 vicinity of Flathead lake, Montana. Mr. Whitford plans to stay through a 

 part of October, and is making a detailed map of the region. Messrs. C. D. 

 Howe and L. H. Harvey, and Dr. B. E. Livingston have been doing individual 

 work in Vermont, Maine, and Michigan. 



We learn from Nature that at the Belfast meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation in September, Professor J. Reynolds Green, president of Section K 

 (Botany), delivered an address dealing with the position of research in plant 

 physiology, and its importance in agriculture. Papers were presented as 

 follows : The morphology and past history of the Araucarieae, by A. C. Sew- 

 ard and Sybille Ford; Internodes and their relation to morphological 

 problems, by Percy Groom; The dorsiventrality of the Podostomaceae, by J. C. 

 Willis ; The function of the nucleolus, and The nucleusof the Cyanophyceae, 

 by Harold Wager ; Sex in the genus Diospyros, and Foliar periodicity in 

 Ceylon trees, by H. Wright ; Fossil Nipa seeds from Belgium, by Messrs. 

 Seward and Arber, 



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