240 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [SEPTEMBER 
versity might have minimized in some way the injurious veto. Their action 
in immediately abandoning the Forestry College seems scarcely justified by 
their public letter. 
THE EXPLORATION operations of the New York Botanical Garden in the 
West Indies have been prosecuted with greater vigor in 1903 than during 
any previous season. Dr. N. L. Britton and Mrs. Britton made one expedi- 
tion to the province of Santa Clara in Cuba, accompanied by Mr. J. Shafer, 
panied by Mr. Percy Wilson, of the Garden; Professor F. S, Earle has 
visited Cuba, Porto Rico, and Jamaica; Dr. M. A. Howe made an extensive 
collection of marine algae along the coast of Porto Rico; and Mr. George 
V. Nash, accompanied by Mr. Harry Baker, made collections along the north- 
ern side of Hayti. Dr. D. T. MacDougal spent July in Jamaica investigating 
the facilities afforded for botanical investigations of all kinds by the labora- 
tories and plantations at Cinchona. Professor L. M. Underwood, of Columbia 
University, also made extensive collections in Cuba and Jamaica by the aid 
of funds from the Garden and the Hermann Research Fund of the Scientific 
Alliance: and Professor F. E. Lloyd, of Teachers College, Columbia Univer- 
sity, operated on a similar basis in Dominica. All of these expeditions were 
so carried out that the results accruing to the Garden consisted of living 
plants, museum and laboratory material, and herbarium specimens. Other 
collectors visiting this region also furnished material to the Garden. Mr. 
Percy Wilson made an extensive visit to Honduras to obtain herbarium and 
museum material, while Mr. L. R. Abrams, of Stanford University, is making 
an investigation of the flora of southern California by the aid of the Garden. 
Mr. R. M. Harper, a student of the Garden, has spent the summer in field 
work in Georgia. 
On September 1 Mr. R. S. Williams, who has been appointed collector 
for the Garden for the Philippines, started for Manila for the purpose of 
beginning explorations planned to extend over a series of years. 
Miss A. M. Vail, the librarian of the Garden, attended the auction sale of 
the Jordan botanical library in Paris in May, from which over seven hundred 
volumes were secured for the library. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick carried out some investigations of the Cretaceous flora 
of Long Island for the U. S. Geological Survey early in the year, and spent 
the summer on detached duty for the same bureau, making an investigation 
of the fossil flora of the Yukon district. Professor F. S. Earle made a sur- 
vey of Porto Rico in March for the U. S. Experiment Station Bureau, and 
Dr. D. T. MacDougal, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Carnegie 
Desert Laboratory participated in the surveying tour of Mexico and the 
southwest during February, which resulted in the location of that institution 
at Tucson, Ariz, 
