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Dr. W. A. Cannon, laboratory assistant in the Garden, has 
been selected as resident investigator of the Desert Botanical) 
Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution. Dr. D. T. MacDougal, 
in company with Mr. Frederick V. Coville, chief of the division{ 
of botany of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, started on the 
24th for a reconnaissance of the region along the Mexican boun- 
dary for the purpose of fixing upon a site for the new laboratory, . 
Dr. L. M. Underwood, professor of botany in Columbia Uni- 
versity, has secured leave of absence until October I, 1903, and 
has started on a collecting tour through the West Indies. Pro-' 
fessor Underwood will visit Jamaica, Cuba and a number of the: 
smaller islands for the purpose of studying the native ferns and 
will go to Europe in midsummer to complete some critical work 
upon the collections in the herbaria at Paris, Kew and Berlin. 
ACCESSIONS. 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM. 
85 specimens of fungi from Virginia. (Given by Dr. W. A. Murrill.) 
6 specimens for the local flora, (Given by Mr. S. H. Burnham.) 
31 ae of fungi from western North America. (By exchange with Professor 
A. Nel 
specimens of flowering plants from the southwestern United States. (By 
saa with the U. S. National Museum. 
4 specimens of grasses from western North America, (By exchange with Bureau 
of Plant Industry. ) 
8 plates of western American plants. (Given by Miss C. C. Haynes.) 
13 specimens of hepatics from the Pacific Slope. (Given by — Aj. Ail 
and C. F. Baker. 
637 specimens of cryptogams from Jamaica. (Collected by Mr. F. S. — 
107 specimens from Colorado. (By exchange with Mr. Geo. Osterh 
21 specimens of fungi from California. (By exchange with Mis ‘Allee Sa ) 
42 specimens of flowering plants from Yukon Territory. (By exchange with the 
nada, 
8 specimens of lichens from Nevada. (Collected by Mr. C. F. 
I specimen of Agrostis from British Columbia. (By exchange i ‘ir. E. W. 
D. Holway, 
41 specimens of fungi from Georgia. (Collected by Mr. Roland M. Harper.) 
79 specimens of flowering plants from Utah and Idaho. (By exchange with 
Oberlin College. ) 
