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red J. Seaver ae the results of his studies of the cup- 
fungi ae in Colorado during the past summer. Of the 
nine hundred specimens collected, approximately one fourth of 
this number belonged to the cup-fungi. From this number of 
specimens sixty species have been identified and a number are 
still undetermined. Two new species are to be described, also 
eight species have been reduced and other possible reductions 
suggested. The results : this seas will appear more in detail 
in a paper to be published in Myc 
Dr. P. A. Rydberg gave an account eo the recent shipwreck 
of Professor J. M. Macoun. Leaving Halifax on the 2d of July, 
he reached Churchill on the 25th and after ae for a month 
in the vicinity started north. Saili Hudson Bay in 
steamer ‘‘Jeannie’’, the party canbe ae an ae is 
almost in the Arctic Circle and here on the evening of September 
5th, the vessel was wrecked in a storm. In order to reach home 
it became necessary for the party to travel 800 miles overland 
by snow-shoes. All of their botanical specimens were saved and 
will prove to be of much interest 
FRED J. SEAVER. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. J. K. Small, head curator of the museums, recently re- 
turned home, after a collecting trip of several weeks in southern 
Florida 
Mr. George V. Nash, head gardener, recently spent several 
daysin Washington studying grasses in connection with. his work 
on North American Flora. 
Mr. William Solotaroff, formerly connected with the Garden, 
and now superintendent of the Shade-tree Commission of East 
Orange, New Jersey, has just published through Messrs. Wiley 
& Sons a well written and attractively illustrated book of nearly 
three hundred pages on ‘‘Shade-trees in Towns and Cities,” in 
which every tree lover will be interested. 
The government steamer ‘‘ Albatross” sailed from San Diego, 
February 25, on a two months’ collecting expedition to Lower 
