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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick, curator, has been granted a leave of 
absence for the purpose of continuing his study of the paleo- 
- botanical material collected by him in Alaska in 1903, under the 
direction of the U. S. Geological Survey. 
Drs. J. C. Arthur and F. D. Kern, of Purdue University, 
Indiana, recently spent some time collecting plant rusts in 
Colorado in connection with work on ‘North American Flora.” 
Mr. C. A. Schwarze, formerly a student of the Garden and 
Columbia University, has been appointed assistant in botany in 
Columbia University for the coming year. 
Mr. A. B. Stout, of the University of Wisconsin, has been 
appointed director of the laboratories, to succeed Mr. Fred J. 
Seaver, who has been transferred to a curatorship. 
Dr. W. A. Murrill lectured before the Lenox Garden Club at 
ee October 3, on the anna of edible and adele 
mushrooms. He also secured with the assistance of Mes 
Field and Hoffmann, an important ee of fleshy fungi - 
the Garden herbarium. 
On October 13, Dr. Murrill left for a trip to Washington, 
Oregon and California, the object of the trip being to collect 
and study fleshy fungi. 
Sir Frederick W. Moore, director of the Royal Botanical 
Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, visited the New York Botanical 
Garden on October 9 and to, at the close of a trip to the eastern 
United States and Canada. Arrangements were made with Sir 
Frederick for an exchange of specimens of greenhouse plants, 
there being many species in the New York collections which have 
never been in cultivation in the Old World, and a large number 
of them duplicated. 
No. 26, volume 7, of the Bulletin of the New York Botanical 
Garden was issued October 12. This number completes the 
volume and, with the exception of the table of contents and index 
to the volume, is entirely given over to ‘‘ A Biologic and Taxonomic 
Study of the Genus Gymnosporangium,” the paper having been 
