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NOTES, NEWS, AND COMMENT. 
Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Curator in Botany of the Field Colum- 
bian Museum, Chicago, consulted the library and herbarium 
during the second week in March for the purpose of working 
out some difficult problems in his recent West Indian collec- 
tions. 
The first meeting each month, of the Torrey Botanical Club, 
is now held in the Museum of the Garden 
Wellesley College is in receipt of a gift of $25,000 from H. 
H. Hunnewell the income from which is to be devoted to the 
uses of the department of botan 
The Woods Holl Marine Biological Laboratory begins its 
mmer sessions July 3d and continues until August ae 
Courses in Cryptogamic aid rs. Davis and Moo 
Phanerogamic Botany by Dr. Chas. R. Shaw, Plant Pisisioey 
y Dr. R. H. True, and Cytology by Dr. Davis and Mr. Laws 
are announ 
he Biological Laboratory of the Brooklyn ag at Cold 
Spring Harbor will be open July and August. Courses in 
Cryptogamic botany, Ecology, rene Navuve Study 
are offere 
The art lecture of the spring course, on ‘‘ Movements of Sap 
eS 
on, April zoth: ‘* The Dawn of 
Garden,” r. N. L. Britt 
Modern Types,” by De Arthur Hollick, i 27th; ‘“‘ The 
nut and its Uses,” by Dr. , May 4th, and ae 
Flowers and Scenery of the Higher a by Mr. Cornelius 
Van Brunt, May rit 
The Department of Drugs of the Economic Museum has 
handsome series of specimens illustrating the tea plant, 
