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two hundred took part. The Garden was represented by Dr. 
N. L. eek Dr. W. A. Murrill, Professor R. A. Harper, and 
r. A. B. Stout. A movement to unite all American botanical 
associations under the Botanical Society of America was auspi- 
ciously inaugurated. The next meeting of the societies will be 
held in Cle a and the one following in Atlanta. 
The Field Museum of Natural History, which has coéperated 
with the Garden im explorations in the Bahamas, will shortly 
erect a new museum building costing about five million dollars. 
The collections will be grouped in it under Anthropology, Botany, 
Geology, and Zodlogy. The California Academy of Sciences 
is also to have a new building in time for the Panama Exposition. 
A new tropical laboratory for botanical and zodlogical re- 
search is soon to be established at Mayaguez, Porto Rico, with 
Dr. F. L. Stevens as director. 
Dr. W. J. Gies, consulting chemist of the Garden and professor 
editors a en very active in the establishment of the 
Biochemical Bulletin, volume I, No. 1 of which appeared re- 
y is publication which is to appear quarterly, each 
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volume containing about five hundred pages, is the official organ 
of the Columbia University Biochemical Association for the 
publication of papers of a biochemical nature. In addition to the 
publication of biochemical research, some of the aims of the 
Bulletin are the extension of general biochemical knowledge and 
to furnish a means of keeping the workers in the home laboratories 
in closer touch with those who have gone out to other fields of 
labor. The first number of the bulletin contains 160 pages and 
is devoted to scientific papers and notes and news of a biochemical 
nature. One of the papers (pp. 7-41, with Bed plats) is by 
Professor Francis Ernest Lloyd and is entitled, ‘‘The tannin- 
colloid complexes in the fruit of the persimmon, Diospyros.” 
We understand that the Biochemical Bulletin will aim to give 
special encouragement to the development of chemical studies 
in botany and that chemical papers on botanical subjects will 
be welcomed to its pages. Botanists are accordingly invited to 
