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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief, accompanied by Mrs. 
Britton and Dr. C. Stuart Gager, director of the new Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden, sailed for Cuba on August 20. The party was 
joined by Professor F. S. Earle, and left for the province of Pinar 
del Rio, where they will spend several weeks in botanical explo- 
ration. 
Professor Frederic S. Lee, of Columbia University, one of the 
scientific directors of the Garden, will be a guest of the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science at its Sheffield 
meeting. Later he will take part in the proceedings of the 
International Physiological Congress in Vienna. 
Professor Francis E. Lloyd spent the month of August at 
the Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, Ariz., continuing 
his studies of transpiration and stomatal movement in ocotillo, 
Fouquteria splendens. 
Edward W. Berry, of the Johns Hopkins University, has re- 
cently been appointed an assistant geologist of the United States 
Geological Survey and is now engaged in collecting paleobotani- 
cal material in the Southern States, particularly from deposits 
of Cretaceous and Tertiary age, in continuation of his previous 
work in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey. 
A large part of Mr. Berry’s earlier collections from the Cretaceous 
of New Jersey, containing many type specimens, are included 
in the paleobotanical collections of the Garden. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick, curator, will spend a part of the month of 
September in field work on Staten Island, in connection with a 
forthcoming Bulletin of the New York State Museum in the 
geology of Greater New Yor 
In conservatory range no. I, house no. 4, one of the chocolate 
trees, Theobroma Cacao, is again flowering freely. The flowers 
of this plant appear upon the trunk and the lower part of the 
branches, differing in this respect from most other plants in which 
the flowers are borne toward the apex of the branches. Some 
