318 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [OCTOBER 
characteristic flora of the country, going as far as Melbourne and a little 
north of Brisbane, besides making a number of shorter excursions, On the 
the way back he was two weeks in Hawaii, returning to Stanford University 
September 1. 
Dr. HERMAN VON SCHRENK, whose government work has been growing 
constantly, withdraws from the School of Botany of Washington University 
to give all of his time to the work in plant pathology and the preservation of 
timbers for the Department of Agriculture, with the title of Chief of the 
Division of Forest Products, under the Bureau of Forestry. He continues in 
charge of the Mississippi Valley Laboratory of the Bureau of Plant Industry, 
located at the Missouri Botanical Garden 
A GARDEN OF MEDICINAL PLANTS is to be established at Golden Gate 
Park, San Francisco, Cal. The park commissioners have set aside eight 
acres of ground in a well protected part of the park and have instructed the 
park superintendent and the authorities of the California College of Phar- 
macy to further the plans of such a garden. Climatic and other conditions 
are exceptionally favorable, and it is believed that fully 90 per cent. of all 
medicinal plants may be grown in the open. Others will be cared for in 
greenhouses, 
T THE UNIVERSITY OF IowA: Men have been in the field all the year 
making collections to complete as far as possible the herbarium representing 
the state flora. Collections have been made chiefly in the northeastern and 
in the southern counties of the state. PROFESSORS MACBRIDE and SHIMEK 
have just returned from an excursion down the valley of the Rio Grande. 
They bring back large collections both of cryptogamic and flowering plants, 
besides a very large number of photographs representing the ecological con- 
ditions of mountain and plain, forest and desert 
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: PROFESSOR W. A. SETCHELL is 
spending his sabbatical year in journeying around the world. His time is to 
be devoted mainly to botanical sightseeing. 
PROFESSOR W. L. Jepson, who is acting head of the department of 
botany in the absence of Professor Setchell, has devoted the last two sum- 
mers to a field study of the forests of northwestern California, centering his 
investigations particularly on the tan oak and the tanbark industry. 
M HALL, who has charge of the herbarium, which now contains 
50,000 sheets, made a wagon journey this summer through the cafion of the 
upper Sacramento River, circled Mount Shasta, crossed the Modoc lava beds, 
passed south to Larsen Peak, and threaded the Sierra Nevada Mountains to 
the Tahoe region and the Calaveras grove. It was a long and very productive 
journey. 
Sir THoMAS HANnsury has presented to the Royal Horticultural Society 
of London a tract known as Wisley Garden, situated twenty miles from Hyde 
Park Corner. The Gardener's Chronicle reports it as “unique .. - + evoid 
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