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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
The lectures upon the mutation theory of organic evolution 
delivered at the University of California by Professor de Vries 
during the summer session of 1904 have been edited by Dr. T 
MacDougal, oa by Miss A. M. Vail and brought out in book 
form by the Open Court Publishing Co., of Chicago. The book 
is an octavo in clear print xviii + 847 pp. and is furnished with 
a very complete index 
The total precpiation in the Garden for January, 1905, 
amounted to 4.98 inches. Maximum temperatures of 54° on 
the Ist, 52° on the 7th, 41° on the rath, 48° on the 2oth, and 
37° on the 28th; alsoa pa of 3% on the 5th, 7° on the 
15th, and 2° on the 27th, 
Professor Clara E, Cummings and Miss Harriet L. Merrow 
sailed for Jamaica on February 1 for the purpose of makin 
some investigations on the flora of that island. The Laboratory 
of the New York Botanical Garden at Cinchona will be used in 
the prosecution of the work in ee 
Dr. C. S. Gager, assistant in the Laboratories is acting as 
instructor in botany at pulses: College for the last half of the 
collegiate year. 
