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charge of botany, University of Rochester; Herbert F. Roberts, assistant in 
Shaw School of Botany; Dr. Wilson R. Smith, instructor in charge of botany, 
McMaster University, Toronto, Canada. 
THE BoTANICAL SEMINAR of the University of Nebraska is pushing work 
on the survey of the state and hopes to send additional parts of the “Flora” to 
the printer before the year is over. The Regents of the University made a 
small grant for a printing fund for the survey at their last meeting. 
BY THE WILL of the late Professor O. C. Marsh, Yale University is given 
his fine residence with the extensive grounds and greenhouses for a botanic 
garden. The house may be used as the residence of the director, or as a 
botanical laboratory. It is to be hoped that this gift will stimulate Yale to 
develop its botanical work more worthily. 
Dr. Epwarp A. Burt, through the courtesy of Dr. W. G. Farlow, has 
been studying the Thelephoracee of the Curtis herbarium and published 
exsiccati in the cryptogamic herbarium at Harvard University. He expects 
to examine types and authentic specimens at Kew during July, spending the 
remainder of the summer in Sweden collecting and studying fleshy fungi. 
AT CoRNELL University: Mr. W. A. Murrill has been appointed for 
the year as assistant cryptogamic botanist to the Experiment Station, to 
take charge of the work of Dr. B, M. Duggar during his absence in Europe. 
Messrs. Heinrich Hasselbring, Judson F. Clark, and George J. Hastings 
have been appointed assistants in botany. Dr. K. M. Wiegand has been 
Promoted to an instructorship in botany. ? 
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: Professor V. M. Spalding, who has 
been in California during the year, has returned to the East and will resume 
we work next autumn. Professor F. C. Newcombe will spend the summer in 
Paris to study the scientific institutes of that city. Dr. J. B. Pollock will 
have charge of the botanical work in the University summer school. Dr, Julia 
nad and Mr. Pond will do work for the U. S. Fish Commission at Put- 
in-Bay, 
THE PLANS of the botanical staff of the University of Iowa for the summer 
ra oeutiies Professor B. Shimek will be engaged in special studies of 
tis mere Problems in Iowa, under direction of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ae Savage will probably complete his studies of the Mosses and 
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there for report to the United States Department of 
» and incidentally picking up the fungi of the region. 
