NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 



Professor Raymond H. Pond, of the Northwestern University 

 Evanston, Illinois, has been awarded a research scholarship al 

 the Garden for six months, beginning October I. 



Professor F. C. Newcombe, of the University of Michigan, 

 spent two days at the Garden in September. 



Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, assistant in botany at Columbia University 

 for the past two years, has resigned to accept the professorship 

 of botany in the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. The 

 botanical work there, formerly conducted under the department 

 of biology, has been reorganized and a department of botany has 

 now been established under the direction of Professor Cardiff. 



Mr. Chester A. Darling has been appointed assistant in Botany 

 at Columbia University. Mr. Darling is a graduate of Albion 

 College, from which institution he received the degree of' A.B., 

 1904, and A. M., 1906. During the past two years he has had 

 charge of the science work at Defiance College, Ohio, which 

 position he resigned to take up the work at Columbia. 



Steam was turned on in the large conservatories for the first 

 time this autumn on September 24, which establishes a record 

 eleven days later than for any previous year in the history of the 

 Garden. In 1903, heat was required as early as August 28. 



nna, recently arrived from Cuba 

 le "weather-plant" (Abrus preca- 

 proposes to establish a weather 



Baron J. F. Nowack, of Vi 

 with a thousand specimens of 

 'orius nobUu), with which he 

 jureau in New York City in 

 :emporarily deposited at the G; 



Thes 



here they are under obser- 

 e plant may be seen in the 

 Garden conservatories. 



Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seffer, of the Zacualpa Rubber and Coffee 

 Plantation, Chiapas, Mexico, recently made a visit to the Garden 

 on his tour around the world. Dr. Olsson-Seffer travels in the 

 interest, partly of the Plantation, of which he is the botanist, and 

 partly of the Mexican government. His aim is to study rubber- 

 culture wherever most advantageous. He intends to visit the 



