Volume 7, part I, of the North American Flora, contribut 

 by George Perkins Clinton, appeared October 4. This part 

 devoted to the group of parasitic fungi popularly known as smi 

 (Ustilaginales), which is divided into two families, the Ustilaj 

 naceae and the Tilletiaceae, represented in North America I 

 nineteen genera. The fascicle includes a host-index, with pai 

 references to the species treated. 



Dr. Melville T. Cook has resigned his position as chief of tl 

 department of plant pathology of the Central Agricultural Expei 

 ment Station of Cuba. He expects to devote several months 

 studies at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Mr. Norman Taylor returned on September 30 from a trip 

 the Sierra Maestra Mountains, near Santiago, Cuba. He accor 

 panied Professor B. E. Fernow, of Ithaca, N. Y., who went f. 

 the purpose of making a timber survey of this region. Durir 

 a four weeks' stay in the mountains west of Santiago, collectioi 

 were made for the Garden herbarium, together with some li< 

 orchids and cactuses for the conservatory. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick and Professor Edward C. Jeffrey continue 

 their joint field work in the Cretaceous deposits of the vicinii 

 during the month of October, paying special attention to the lii 

 nitic remains found at Kreischerville, Staten Island, which we 



Some of this material collected during the spring was taken t 

 Professor Jeffrey to England, where it aroused great intere 

 among the European palaeobotanists at the meeting of tl 

 British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Y01 

 last summer. A new species of Pity oxy Ion, or fossil pine woo 

 obtained from Kreischerville, was described by Dr. Jeffrey in tl 

 July number of the Botanical Gazette, under the name P. state, 

 ense, and more recent examination of the accompanying materi 

 has shown that several other new species of pines are represent* 



