1903] NEWS 239 
inspector of agriculture for the Dutch West Indies. Dr. van Hall has been 
botanist at the Phytopathological Laboratory Willie Commelin Scholten at 
Amsterdam, 
PROFESSOR W. A. KELLERMAN and Assistant O. E. Jennings conducted 
the botanical work of the Ohio State University Lake Laboratory at Sandusky, 
Ohio, in July and August. ‘l'wenty-five students were enrolled. During the 
latter part of August and early September Professor Kellerman made exten- 
sive collections of fungi, especially the parasitic species, on the Cheat Moun- 
tains, Randolph county, West Virginia. 
THE ORGANIZATION of the Society for Horticultural Science recently 
proposed has been decided upon. The proposition met with a wide, enthu- 
siastic, and almost unanimously favorable reception, not only by horticultur- 
ists, but also by a considerable number of botanists and other scientists. The 
need of the society is keenly felt and the time appears ripe for inaugurating 
the new movement. An attendance of at least thirty of those interested is 
assured for the first meeting, which is to be held in connection with the 
annual meeting of the American Pomological Society at Boston. Professor 
L. H. Bailey will preside. A preliminary meeting for organization and con- 
ference will be held in the rooms of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 
September 9, 
Mr. Cyrus G. PRINGLE, who last year accepted the position of keeper 
of the herbarium of the University of Vermont, started from that institution 
the first of August upon his nineteenth consecutive annual collecting journey 
to Mexico. Since his return last February he has installed his herbarium at 
the university and distributed to other herbaria over 30,000 sheets of plants, 
including his Mexican collections of tg01 and 1902, and that made last Janu- 
ary in Cuba. The Mexican collection of 1902 was an especially rich one. 
Of the 280 species collected for the first time fully one-fourth were new. He 
will this year continue his explorations of the southern Andean system of 
Mexico, taking with him one or two assistants. Dr. J. N. Rose, of the 
National Museum, plans to join him with another assistant in September. 
ON Account of an unexpected veto by the governor of the appropriation 
for the New York State College of Forestry, the trustees of Cornell Univer- 
sity, at which the college was located, have announced the suspension of this 
work. The action of the governor is one that cannot be justified from any 
point of view. A flourishing college had been organized at which several 
hundred students were in attendance, forestry work upon the reserve in the 
Adirondacks had been well begun, contracts had been entered into with 
important wood manufacturing companies for a supply during a term of 
college will make known the influences which have brought about this curious 
action of the governor. It would appear that the trustees of Cornell Uni- 
