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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
The January conference of the scientific staff and registered 
students of the GARDEN was held in the laboratory of the museum 
building, January 7. Dr. John K. Small reported on his recent 
botanical explorations in Florida, the official report of which will 
appear in a future issue of the JOURNAL. 
Miss Winifred J. Robinson, Ph.D., has resigned from the 
position of assistant professor of botany at Vassar College to 
become dean of women in the State College of Delaware. After 
March 1, Miss Robinson's address will be Newark, Delaware. 
Dr. John K. Small spent part of the last week of January in 
Washington, D. C. in the examination of specimens in the 
National Herbarium in connection with work on North American 
Flora 
Dr. Britton, accompanied by Mrs. Britton, Mr. John F. Cowell, 
Director of the Buffalo Botanical Garden and Mr. Fran 
Lutz of the American Museum of Natural History, sailed for 
Porto Rico on February 7 for continuing studies of the botany 
and zodlogy of that island in codperation with the New York 
Academy of Sciences. The party will make Mayagiiez a base 
of operations for explorations in western Porto Rico, and the 
islands of the Mona Passage, planning to return to New York 
about March 16. 
