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made. Of course a general botanical collection will be secured, and a list of 
the type localities of several hundred species, many of which are not repre- 
sented in American herbaria, will give a very definite purpose to the collect- 
ing. 
Dr. F, E. CLEMENTS, after giving instruction in botany in the Summer 
School of the University of Nebraska from June g to July 20, will visit the 
Missouri river bluff region, making a careful study of the phytogeographical 
regions from Florence southward. 
Dr. B. M. DuGGar, instructor in botany in Cornell University and assist- 
ant cryptogamic botanist in the Experimental Station, has leave of absence 
for the coming year, and is already working in the laboratories for plant 
physiology under Dr. Pfeffer in Leipzig, and in those for experimental 
morphology under Dr. Klebs at Halle. 
WHAT HAS BEEN heretofore the Summer School of Cornell University, 
being a private or individual affair managed by the instructors directly con- 
cerned, has now become a regular six-weeks term of the university. Profes- 
sor George F. Atkinson has been appointed for this year to give instruction 
in botany, with Mr. Heinrich Hasselbring as his assistant. 
AT THE MEETING of the Academy of Science of St. Louis on May 1, 1899, 
Mr. H. von Schrenk presented the general results of a study of certain dis- 
eases of the yellow pine, illustrating his remarks by the exhibition of a num- 
ber of specimens showing the characteristic phenomena of the diseases and 
the fruiting bodies of the fungi which caused them.—WM. TRELEASE. 
AFTER EIGHT YEARS of service, Professor D. H. Campbell has been given 
leave of absence for a year from Leland Stanford University. He will sail 
for Europe about the middle of July. After spending some time in England, 
he will winter about the Mediterranean, going as far east as Egypt. His 
journey is chiefly for recreation, although he will do some botanical work. 
THERE ARE in southern California three notable collections of cacti and 
other plants of arid regions that should be known to students and specialists. 
Two of these are in San Diego, one of them forming a part of the exceed- 
ingly interesting garden of Mr. and Mrs. T. 5. Brandegee, the other belong- 
ing to Mr. Charles R. Orcutt. The third collection is the property of Mr. 
A. H. Alverson, of San Bernardino.—V. M. SPALDING. 
Mr. RoBeRT Comes died April 11, at the age of twenty-seven years. 
He was known to botanists through the publication of his collections in the 
vicinity of Cienfuegos, Cuba; and through his paper on the medical seated 
of Cuba. He was an assistant in botany in Iowa State College and the 
Agricultural Experiment Station, and at the time of his death was one of the 
field agents of the Division of Agrostology, Department of Agriculture. 
