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Dr. J. N. Rose spent two weeks at the Garden in December 
studying the collections of cacti. 
Nearly two hundred colored drawings of local fleshy fungi have 
recently been mounted in the swinging frames of the public 
museum of the New York Botanical Garden 
Professor F. L. Stevens has resigned the position of Dean of 
the College of Agriculture, Mayaguez, ‘Porto Rico, to become 
Professor of Plant Pathology in the University of Illinois. His 
address after February 1 will be Urbana, Illinois 
Dr. C. H. Kauffman, Assistant Professor of Botany in the 
University Michigan, has been granted a research scholarship 
for February, 1914, to aid him in the preparation of manuscript 
for North American Flora on the genus Cortinarius. 
The first sections of the new laboratory building and conser- 
vatories of Brooklyn Botanic Garden were inspected by 
number he friends of the institution on the afternoon of 
December 13. Several members of the staff of the New York 
Botanical Garden were present. 
Dr. C. H. Ostenfeld, of the Botanical Museum at Copenhagen, 
nmark, spent several days at the Garden early in December 
examining the herbarium. On December 13, he sailed for 
Porto Rico, and will spend the — in the West Indies, return- 
ing to Copenhagen about April 
Dr. T. C. Frye, of the University of Washington, ork 
Washington, visited the Garden during the latter part of 
cember for the purpose of consulting the library. He wil 
attend the meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, at Atlanta, during Convocation Week, and will 
visit other eastern libraries and herbaria early in the new year. 
