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from the Santa Clara coal field, Sonora, Mexico, which is of 
importance because the Triassic flora of North America is, com- 
paratively, so little known. It consists of about two dozen 
specimens and about half a dozen species, These latter include 
two or three species of well preserved ferns (one of which is 
represented by both fertile and sterile fronds), a remarkably 
fine equisetum (probably a new species) showing the teeth and 
branches with great clearness, a cycad or two, and aconifer. All 
are embedded in a hard fine-grained shale that splits rather un- 
evenly. Specimens of a number of species were exhibited. 
RED J. SEAVER. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Prof. LeRoy Abrams, of Stanford University, California, has 
been granted a research scholarship in the Garden for two months 
to aid in his studies on the trees and shrubs of southern California. 
r. R. C. Benedict is also in residence for a month under a 
scholarship grant and is pursuing his studies of the fern tribe 
Vittarieae in connection with work on ‘‘North American Flora.” 
Mr. W. W. Eggleston has oa accepted a position as 
assistant botanist of the Forest Service of the United States 
Department of Agriculture. He has been detailed to study 
poisonous forage plants in Colorado in codperation with the 
Bureau of Plant Industry. 
Dr. Charles E. Fairman, a physician of Lyndonville, N. Y., 
has spent a week at the Garden looking over material and liter- 
ature preparatory to a monograph of one of the families of the 
fungi. Dr. Fairman has been for many years past an enthusiastic 
student of fungi and through his publications his name is well 
known to mycologists. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick attended the meeting of the American 
Association of Museums at Buffalo, from May 31 to June 2, as 
the delegate representing the Garden. Dr. Hollick read a paper 
on ‘‘ The Paleobotanical Collections of the New York Botanical 
Garden,” in which the origin and development of the collections 
and the methods of installation, arrangement and labeling, were 
