Dr. N. L. Britton represented the Garden at the fourth annual 

 field Botanical Symposium, held at Newton, New Jersey, July 

 I to 8. The region about Swartswood Lake is of great interest 

 botanically and was formerly one of Dr. Britton's favorite collect- 

 ing grounds. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick, Curator, delivered an address at the open- 

 ing exercises of the St. George branch of the New York public 

 library at Central avenue and Hyatt street, Staten Island, June 

 26. He also participated in the commencement exercises of 

 Curtis High School on June 27. 



Mr. Guy West Wilson (M. S., Purdue University, 1906), who 

 during the past year has been engaged in mycological studies at 

 the Garden, has been appointed professor of biology in the Upper 

 Iowa University at Fayette, Iowa, and expects to begin work 

 there next autumn. 



Mr. Fred J. Seaver, university fellow in botany in Columbia Uni- 

 versity during 1906-07, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of botany in the North Dakota Agricultural College and assistant 

 botanist of the agricultural experiment station at Fargo, North 



Miss Winifred Josephine Robinson, Instructor in Biology at 

 Vassar College, has been granted a leave of absence for one year. 

 During this time Miss Robinson will act as Laboratory Assistant 

 at the Garden, and continue her investigations on the taxonomy 

 of the ferns of the Sandwich Islands, the life history of the filmy 

 ferns, and the nutrition of the pitcher-plants (Sarracenia). 



Professor M. A. Barber, of the University of Kansas, Professor 

 W. L. Bray, of the University of Texas, Professor F. E. Lloyd, of 

 the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, Professor F. L. 

 Stevens, of the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 

 lege, and Messrs. Hermann Schmidt and Louis Weiss, explorers 

 of the valley of the Amazon, were among recent visitors at the 



