So BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JULY 
Herrick, of Denison University, President of the Ohio Academy of Sciences ; 
by members of the Board of Trustees and of the Faculty of the University; 
and by Professor Herbert Osborn, Director of the laboratory. 
SCIENCE announces that Professor F. E. Lloyd, of Teachers College, 
Columbia University, left June 13, by the steamer ‘“‘Caribee,”’ for the island 
of Dominica, where, in the company of Mrs. Lloyd, he will spend the summer 
in the study of the flora. The expedition is under the auspices of the New 
York Botanical Garden, and the systematic collections will become a part of 
the garden herbarium. Professor Lloyd has received a grant of $200 from 
the Esther Herrman research fund of the Scientific Alliance of New York, to 
aid him in the collection of tropical Rubiaceae to be used in the furtherance 
of his researches in the embryology of that order. 
In APRIL 1903 appeared volume 1, number 1, of a monthly quarto review, 
entitled Flora and Sylva. The aim of this periodical is to illustrate in color 
and by good engravings new, rare, or valuable herbaceous plants, trees, and 
shrubs, fitted for the English climate, and to show appropriate and picturesque 
planting of grounds and garden design. The typography and paper are 
sumptuous ; the colored plates, two in this number, are well executed chromo- 
lithographs. The illustrations in black are apparently wood engravings, the 
character of the paper preventing the use of half-tones. In this number 
articles on the hardy bamboos in England, on new daffodils, on the genus 
magnolia, and a revision of the genus Calochortus, with shorter articles on a 
variety of subjects indicate the general scope of the journal. The editor is 
r. W. Robinson, the author of 7he English flower garden. Flora and 
Sylva promises to be a worthy addition to the horticultural literature of .our 
day. No yearly subscription price is indicated; but the single number is 
marked ‘price half-a-crown 
THE REPORT of the officers of the New York Botanical Garden for 1902 
shows that the number of herbaceous species grown in the Garden is about 
3000. Grading operations and making of paths have still interfered with the 
extension of the planting of shrubs and trees, but the fruticetum contains 
over 530 species, the salicetum about 50 species, the arboretum about 300 
species, and the viticetum about 60 species. A great increase has been made 
in the collections of plants cultivated under glass, which now number nearly 
6000 species. The approach to the museum building and the public con- 
servatory were completed during the year. The library has increased by 
nearly 2000 volumes and now consists of about 13,000 bound volumes. 67,000 
specimens have been recived for the museum and herbarium. Forty-three 
students, including graduates of thirty-one different colleges and universities 
have been granted the privileges of the museum, library, and laboratories 
during the year, in addition to numerous visiting investigators from other 
institutions. Many explorations have been carried out by members of the 
staff, to which over $4000 has been devoted. The report is an interesting 
account of the progress of this great institution. 
