400 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [NOVEMBER 
ment, this laboratory is specifically in the charge of Dr. F. D. Heap. Dr. F. E, 
CLEMENTs is to give courses in ecology as part of the larger division of plant 
physiology of which he was recently appointed associate professor. 
From THE Journal of the New York Botanical Garden we learn that Dr. 
and Mrs. N. L. Britton, accompanied by Mr. StEwarpson Brown, curator of 
botany in the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, spent three weeks in 
Bermuda in September, bringing back a large collection of plants, live and dried, 
in all about 3,000 specimens. 
Dr. P. A. RypBERG spent two months last summer in collecting about Salt 
Lake City, Marysvale, and Nephi, Utah. 
Mr. GeorcE V. Nasu has recently returned from an exploring expedition 
in the interior of Hayti, reaching some regions hitherto unvisited by any botanist 
and bringing back large quantities of live plants, seeds, and preserved material. 
Dr. Forrest SHREVE is spending the winter at the tropical laboratory of the 
New York Botanical Garden, Cinchona, Jamaica, having been appointed a 
laboratory assistant of the Garden and Bruce Fellow of Johns Hopkins University. 
THE FOLLOWING movements among the staff of the U. S. Bureau of Plant 
Industry have been reported at our request: 
Dr. W. CHTMANN has returned from a trip to California, undertaken 
in the interests of camphor and poppy investigations. 
rR. W. F. Wicut has just returned from Europe, where he spent four months 
in studying type specimens of plants in various herbaria. 
Mr. F. H. Hittman recently visited the Pacific coast in order to study the 
species of dodder which are so troublesome in alfalfa and clover fields. 
. G. Frep K1vuGH spent several months in Idaho and Nevada note 
the relation of poisonous plants to the sheep trouble known as “bighead.’ 
Mr. S. C. Hoon, who has been in charge of the Vermont station for drug: 
plant investigations, at Burlington, has returned to Washington for the winter. 
oFEssor H. Pirtier is about to start on an exploring trip of four or five 
months’ duration in western Columbia, with a special view to 4 study of the 
cottons of that region. aE 
Mr. T. B. Younc has returned to Washington after a season’s work at Eb 
ezer, S. C., where he has been in charge of the drug-plant farm, a 
with Mr. J. W. Kine, fe 
Mr. Epcar Brown recently returned from an inspection of the meee 
tant seed laboratories of England, France, Netherlands, Germany, ©° — 
Hungary, and Switzerland. ae 
Mr. W. W. SrockBercer recently made a trip through the hop- pee 
sections of the Pacific coast and the state of New York, where the con : 
brewing and of curing hops have been studied. oe 
Dr. J. W. T. Duvet is spending some time in Ohio and Illinois vee pi . 
the curing of seed corn. It has been found that by proper treatment 
of high vitality can be assured at planting time. 
