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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENTS. 
Among the increased opportunities for the study of botany 
during the summer season, those offered by Columbia University, 
the Woods Holl Marine Biological conan and the Marine 
Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor are to 
Columbia has instituted a summer pene beginning July 2d 
ending August 1oth, in which the department of botany, 
ain Engl pias istory, manual training, mathe- 
matics, philosophy, physical training, physics and psychology 
will offer work, The pace of botany will be in charge of 
Professor Lloyd, who will offer course in ecology, general 
botany, and research work in select subjec Students in these 
courses will have access to the museum 4 collections of the 
Garden 
The w oods Holl Laboratories will be open from ae 5th to 
ee 16th,.and the botanical staff includes Dr. B. M. Davis, 
T. Moore, Dr. R. H. True, Miss Rhoda A. Esten and 
Miss Lillian G. MacRae. 
Courses in oo botany, plant physiology and plant 
cytology will red. 
The a Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor will be 
open from July 2d until August 25th. The botanical staff in- 
cludes Dr. D. S. Johnson, Dr. H. C. Cowles and Mr. W. C. 
Coker. eae are offered in cryptogamic botany and ecolo 
Professor N. F. Davis will also give a course in ae 
and Dr. H. A. Kelly will have charge of work in nature study 
An Annotated catalogue of the Flora . Montana and the 
Yellowstone National Park, by Dr. P. A. Rydberg, has been 
issued as Vol. I. of the Memoirs of the Garden. It makes a 
ook of about 500 pages, royal octavo, is eee with a de- 
tailed map of the area in question, and is issued under date of 
February 15, 1900. Dr. Rydberg has oe Gee seasons in the 
field in western Montana and the Park, and has examined almost 
every collection made in that section of the country. Throug 
the generosity of Mr. Wm. E. Dod of the Board of Managers, 
a special expedition for the Cae was made by the author and 
