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selecting duplicate specimens of living plants for the Botanical 
rden of the Johns Hopkins University, situated in the western 
part of Homewood, Baltimore, 
Miss Alexandrina Taylor and her mother returned from 
Jamaica, September 8, where they have been spending a year in 
residence at Cinchona for the purpose of collecting ferns, mosses 
and hepatics for study and distribution. Professor F. O. Bower, 
of the University of Glasgow, also spent several weeks at Cinchona 
during July and August, and Dr. and Mrs. Forrest Shreve, who 
have been in residence since June, expect to remain there until 
December ; Dr. Shreve is a member of the Botanical Staff of the 
Carnegie Institution of Washington. 
Miss Winifred J. Robinson, of Vassar College, has recently re- 
turned from the Hawaiian Islands, where she spent the summer 
collecting ferns. The larger islands were visited and extensive 
collections were made, special attention being paid to the tree- 
ferns, The work was aided by a grant from the Research Fund 
of the Garden, Miss Robinson having been here as a student for 
considerable periods. 
A valuable collection of Boletaceae, consisting of seventy-five 
numbers, with complete descriptive notes made from fresh speci- 
mens, has recently been sent in for determination by Professor 
Bruce Fink, of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. The collection 
includes about thirty can several of which have not been re- 
ported before from that region. C. auriflammeus and C. Curtisit 
deserve special mention. ce of these specimens were collected 
by Professor Fink in August and September, 1909, at Big Hill, 
Ky., about five miles from Berea, in the edge of the Cumberland 
Mountains, at an elevation of goo to 1,700 feet. The others were 
found in the vicinity of Oxford, Ohio. The Boletaceae are large 
fleshy fungi, which grow mostly on the ground in woods. 
A of the Fourth Annual Report of the Forest Park 
Reservation Commission of New Jersey for the year ending 
October 31, 1908, was received here within the past few weeks. 
This periodical is probably one of the most complete and com- 
