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manent slides of the spores made for future study, and numerous 
other specimens in the same collection were examined less criti- 
ca A few of the specimens desired were missing from the 
collection. 
The recently issued. administrative report of the Missouri 
Botanical Garden, and an announcement of, Washington Univer- 
sity concerning the Henry Shaw School of eed indicate that 
the Shaw foundation is about to enter upon much increased 
activity. Last year a well designed fireproof buil nee of about 
12,000 square feet of floor space was put up. A part of this is 
being furnished in steel for stack purposes, and the remaining — 
and larger —— part is being equipped for laboratory use. Itis now 
announced that a definite step toward the fuller development con- 
templated by the founder and planned by the director has been 
taken in the establishment of the post of plant physiologist at the 
Garden, and the creation of a professorship of plant physiology and 
applied botany in the Shaw School of Botany, with provision for 
two research fellowships in botany. To the new professorship, 
Dr. George T. Moore has been called, as possessing to an unusual 
extent the desired combination of established reputation, breadth 
of view, and expert appreciation of the economic applications of 
botany. The research fellowships are open to capable graduate 
students, and are believed to offer unusual opportunities for the 
productive use of talent in investigation. The library (58,538 
books and pamphlets), herbarium (618,872 specimens) and gar- 
den (11,464 living plants) furnish the Searle facilities for the 
most advanced investigation, and the work in the School of 
pee is to be so planned that the individual ee of students 
engaging in research will be met in every way possible, while 
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Vol. 3 of the Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 
“Studies of Cretaceous Coniferous Remains from Kreischerville, 
New York,” under the joint authorship of Dr. Arthur Hollick, of 
the New York Botanical Garden, and Dr. Edward Charles Jeffrey, 
of Harvard University, was issued May 20. The volume con- 
tains 138 pages of text and 29 plates. The material described 
was obtained by the authors from the cretaceous deposits at 
