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Dr. John K. Small, spent the first part of December in ex- 
ploration in Florida. He visited the western and southern ex- 
tremities of the state, as well as many points in a interior of 
the peninsula, mainly in search of cacti and ferns. 
Professor Guy West Wilson, former student and aid at the 
New York Botanical Garden, has been appointed associate bot- 
anist and plant pathologist in Clemson College, South Carolina. 
. Clarence Waldron, son of Professor Waldron of North 
Dalces, called at the Garden recently on his way to France in 
military service. 
Dr. J. F. Brenckle, of North Dakota, called at the Garden re- 
cently. Dr. Brenckle is a physician and an enthusiastic mycolo- 
gist. He has ae in the medical service in the army, but is 
now released. 
The following botanists have registered in the library during 
the autumn: C. A. Reed and Dr. S. F. Blake, Washington, D. C.; 
Robert K. Miller, Baltimore, Md.; Professor Arthur H. Cen. 
ae Haven, Conn.; Dr. Kwan otha, Tokyo, Japan; Professor 
. Glea an a Mich.; — Charles S. ee 
Phinda Pa Charles B. Graves and Mrs. Gra 
New London, Conn.; and Professor pat W. Radic Weleie, 
College 
r. Edgar Nelson visited the Garden on December 4 on his 
way to Porto Rico and gave a brief account at the Conference on 
his work in Florida, Louisiana and Texas on the citrus canker 
and the cotton boll-worm. He goes to Porto Rico to continue 
his work on the control of economic insects. 
ong the plants brought to the Garden by Miss Kittredge 
a ee for Miss Elizabeth Billings in Woodstock, Vermont, 
the past summer, are several double-fruited forms of Botrychium 
