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sate and showed specimens of ‘“‘A Little-known Mangrove of 
ana The entire paper appears in this number of the 
pane 
A letter has lately been received from Dr. Charles B. Robinson, 
formerly a member of the Garden staff, stating that he expects 
to return to this country about the end of July. Dr. Robinson 
has been in the service of the Philippine Bureau of Science for 
over three years and it is understood has been collecting this 
spring along the Indo-China coast, a region very little known 
botanically. 
Mr. Norman Taylor, for some time past assistant curator at 
the New York Botanical Garden, has recently been appointed 
curator of plants in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden having 
assumed the duties of his new position March 16. 
r. Taylor has been in the service of the New York Botanical 
Garden for the past six years. For two years he held the position 
of custodian of the plantations. In 1909 he was appointed an 
assistant curator, of the museums and herbarium, and has 
devoted much time to the building up of the herbarium of local 
plants. In this connection he has been considering the various 
factors which bear upon the distribution of our local plants. 
At various times he has aided in carrying on botanical explora- 
tions in the West Indies, one trip being made, in company with 
Mr. George V. Nash, to the Bahama Islands in 1904 and another 
to the republic of Haytiin 1905. In company with Dr. Fernow, 
he made a trip to Cuba during the summer of 1906, and in 1909 
carried on explorations in Santo Domingo. 
n addition to numerous papers on various phases of local 
flora work, he has monographed several families of plants for 
North American Flora. In 1909 he prepared for publication in 
the Garden BULLETIN an extensive and well-illustrated paper on 
the ‘‘ Native Trees of the Hudson River Valley.” He has also 
assisted very successfully with the demonstration work in con- 
nection with the public school lectures. 
