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North American Flora, Volume 22, Part 5, was issued Decem- 
ber 23. It comprises 92 pages (389-480), and is devoted eee 
to the continuation of the treatment of Rosaceae, by ya- 
erg. This part does not complete oe volume, as anne in 
the September number of the JOURN 
The annual meeting of the New York State Forestry Associa- 
tion was held at ee January 22, with morning and afternoon 
sessions, and a banquet in the evening at which Hon. ie Ss. 
Whipple, the newly pe president, was toastm. 
W. A. Murrill represented the Garden and gave an lame 
address on “Trees and Children.” 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe was the delegate from the Garden staff 
nnual meetings of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science and of the Botanical Society of America, 
held in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Christmas holidays. In the 
absence of President Douglas H. Campbell of California, he acted 
as chairman at the meetings of the Botanical Society. ter the 
meetings Dr. Howe devoted two weeks to field work in Georgia 
and Florida. 
Dr. Charles Budd Robinson, of the Bureau of Science, Manila, 
who had been engaged for several months in the botanical 
exploration of Amboina, was murdered on December 5 at a spot 
about eight miles from Ambon, the principal town of the island, 
by a party of six Mohammedan natives of the island of Boeton. 
Five of the six were promptly captured and confessed their deed, 
but of course no punishment that may be meted out to them can 
atone for the loss they have inflicted upon American science. 
Dr. Robinson was a native of Nova Scotia, and a teacher for 
ten years in the schools of that province before devoting himself 
exclusively to botany as a profession. He was a graduate of 
Dalhousie University at Halifax, studied for two years at Cam- 
bridge University, England, and took the degree of Doctor of 
Philosophy from Columbia University in 1906. He was con- 
nected with the New York Botanical Garden, as student, assis- 
tant, and curator, for more than four years before his appointment 
