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Professor Hitchcock was editor of the first seven volumes of 
American Monthly Microscopical Journal from 1880 to 
1887. Since that time he has been variously occupied as a pro- 
fessor of chemistry in Japan, as one of the curators of the U.S 
National Museum, as a commissioner to China for the Columbian 
Exposition, and as a lecturer on economics 
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Prof. H. H. Whetzel, leader of the plant disease survey work 
of the state of New York in codperation with the United States 
Department of Agriculture, is soliciting the collaboration of all 
institutions in the sta ich are interested in ology or 
a detailed knowledge of the distribution and prevalence of the 
principal diseases of food-plants, which knowledge is to be used 
as a basis in waging a more intelligent campaign against such 
Botanical Garden to coéperate with the state leader in this work. 
Meteorology for February: The total precipitation for February 
as 2.59 inches which 0.25 inch (2% i $§ snow measure- 
ment) fell as sn e snow which had covered the ground 
36° on the 15th, 57° on the 20th, and 60°on the 25th. The mini- 
mum temperatures were —6° on the 5th, 13° on the 18th, and 7° 
on the 22d 
ACCESSIONS 
MUSEUM AND HERBARIUM 
specimens of Polygonum from eastern North America. (By exchange with 
Pte University.) 
1 specimen of a Labiate from Michigan. (Given by Mr. K. K. Mackenzie.) 
16 specimens of hepaticae from Mexico. (By ae with Professor A. W- 
Evans.) 
