NEWS 



The University of Washington will open its marine station at Friday 

 Harbor on June 22 for a session of six weeks. Dr. R. B. Wylie, University of 

 Iowa, will be in charge of the botany. The station is in the heart of an evergreen 

 forest in the winter rainbelt, and the marine plants are extraordinarily abundant. 

 The university has also announced a botanical field trip to Alaska, under the 

 direction of Dr. T. C. Frye, to Iea^■e Seattle about July i, to go as far north as 

 Skagway, and to continue for six weeks. 



A French Dictionary 0} botany is in preparation by Gaston Bonnier, pro- 

 fessor of botany at the Sorbonne, with the assistance of Edouard Griffon, pro- 



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Museum of Natural History. It is to include taxonomy, geographical distribution, 

 morphology, physiolog}-, ecology, pathology, paleobotany, agriculture, horticul- 

 ture, mdustrial and commercial applications of botany, mytholog)-, etymology of 

 names and terms, and historical, biographical, and bibliographical information, 



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How so comprehensive a scheme can be realized within these limits remains to be 

 seen, but the French— publishers and authors aHkt^-are master-hands at encyclo- 

 pedic work. Pubhcation will not be beiai" ""^-i '^'- ^ o^..;r^t ;.. r^-^rvr^lptp. 



insuring regular issue of the parts. . 



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