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the arboretum and to the collection of hawthorns in the 
aes loaded with attractive, highly colored fruit 
W. A. Musent 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
A recent visitor to the Garden was M. Armand Renier, of the 
University of Liege, and director of the Geological Survey of 
Belgium, who spent several days examining the type specimens 
of carboniferous fossil plants included in the collections from 
Ohio described by Dr. J. S. aA 
Mr. Frank Shipley Collins, author of ‘‘The Green Algae of 
North America” and of numerous other papers relating to the 
North American algae, was a visitor at the Garden on Sep- 
tember 8 
Mr. Edward Lyman Morris, editor of the Bulletin of the Torrey 
Botanical Club, and since 1907 curator of natural science in the 
of the Brooklyn Institute, died at his home in Brooklyn 
September 14 from accidental asphyxiation by illuminating gas. 
Mr. was born in Monson, Massachusetts, October 23, 
1870, and was a pes of Amherst College in the class of 1891. 
From 1893 to 1895 he was a laboratory assistant and instructor 
in biology in Amherst College and from 1895 to 1907 was a 
teacher in the high schools of Washington, D. C., being head of 
the department of biology from 1900 to 1907. While a resident 
Washington, he acted at various times as expert and field 
assistant for the United States National Herbarium, the United 
States aa th of Agriculture, and the United States Fish 
ommissio Following the resignation of Dr. Frederick A- 
Lucas in ae IQII, to become director of the American Museum 
of Natural History, Mr. Morris was for more than a year the 
acting director of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute. Mr. 
Morris was engaged in a special taxonomic study of the Plan- 
taginaceae of North and South America. The cutting short of a 
career of substantial attainments and unusual promise will be 
widely and sincerely regrette: 
