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Flora” appeared March 6, 1907, as part 2 of volume 7, and 
their recent investigations are embodied in a succeeding part 
soon to be published. 
Miss Mary Perle Anderson, who held a scholarship from 
January 1 to April 1, 1907, is studying the Geographical Dis- 
tribution of the Ferns of Japan. Miss Anderson spent some 
time during the summer in consulting material in European 
herbaria. 
Professor Melville Thurston Cook, formerly Chief of the 
Department of Plant Pathology of the Estaciédn Central 
Agronémica de Cuba, was granted a scholarship from January 
x to April 1, 1907. He was engaged in studies of insect galls 
and in embryological investigation. While here he completed 
two papers, ‘‘ The Embryology of Ahytzdophyllum,” and 
‘‘The Embryology of AAtzophora Mangle,’ both of which 
appeared in The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for 
1907. At the termination of his residence at the Garden, Dr. 
Cook accepted an appointment under the Adams Act, as Plant 
Pathologist of the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station 
at Newark, Delaware. 
Dr. Raymond Haynes Pond held a research scholarship 
from October 1, 1906, to April 1, 1907, and, on account of 
the nature of the problems, the grant was continued from 
April 1, 1907, to July 1, 1907. Dr. Pond investigated the 
problem of ‘* Solution Tension and Toxicity in Lipolysis,” 
and has published one paper on this subject in the American 
Journal of Physiology for July, 1907. A second paper has 
also been prepared. 
Professor F. S. Earle, of Herradura, Cuba, formerly 
Director of the Estacién Central Agronémica de Cuba, held 
a research scholarship during July, during which time he was 
investigating certain groups of the gill-fungi with a view to 
publishing them at an early date in the ‘“‘North American 
Flora.” Professor Earle has made important additions to the 
knowledge of the gill-fungi through his recent collections in 
Cuba. 
