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of a alata of the composition of the cocoanut, by Mr. 
R. E. Kirky : e new Botanical Garden at Berlin, 2 Dr. 
N. i Britton ; Recent results in hybridization, by Mr. 
Contributions 5, 9, 10 and 12 of the Garden series consists of 
studies of the Rocky mountain flora by Dr. P. : 
collections accumulated by the Herbarium front the region in 
question during the last few — are found to include a large 
number of new species, and to afford material for the critical 
determination of numerous rare a little known forms. 
Contribution No. 11, The life history of Schesaca pusilla, by 
Mrs. E. G. Britton, an Miss Alexandrina Taylor is an exhaus- 
been mentioned (JouRNAL, 1: 151. October, 1900). 
Professor E. A. Burt of Middlebury, Vermont, spent two weeks 
during the holidays in the study of fungi at the Garden. 
Professor F. E. Lloyd is absent from Teachers College 
leave and will oe a half year in the Botanical ine at 
Bonn, Ger 
ougal has completed a book entitled “A Prac- 
tical Manad of Plant Physiology” which he has had in preparation 
for several years, and its appearance is announced for May Ist. 
The book comprises discussions of the principles of the subject 
and directions for laboratory practice suitable for original work, 
making a volume of about 350 pages with 150 illustrations. It 
is being published by Longmans, Green and Co 
Mr. O. F. Cook, Special Agent for ies Plants, Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., spent the first week in 
March in consultation of the library and seenie of the Garden. 
eo. as ead Gardener, has been detached from 
work: at the Carden foe about six weeks, and has gone to the 
Royal Gardens at Kew, England, on invitation of Sir William 
Dyer, Director of the Royal Gardens, for the purpose of select- 
