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Rev. Reuben Denton Nevius, D.D., died at Tacoma, Wash- 

 ington, December 14, 191 3. He was born at Ovid, New York, 

 November 27, 1827, and was a graduate of Union College of the 

 class of 1849. He was a Protestant Episcopal clergyman and 

 missionary, and, it is said, had been instrumental in establishing 

 more than thirty churches and chapels in the Pacific Northwest. 

 As a botanist he was known for his work as a collector in Alabama, 

 Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Asa Gray dedicated to him 

 the handsome rosaceous shrub Neviusia alabamensis, which is 

 known only from two localities in Alabama. Chenactis Nevii, 

 Mnium Nevii, Racomitrium Nevii, Sedum Nevii, and perhaps 

 other species commemorate his botanical interests. Dr. Nevius 

 is reputed to have possessed the best collection of diatoms in the 

 Northwest. 



P. B. Kennedy, Ph.D., '99, Cornell, professor of botany, 

 horticulture and forestry in University of Nevada College and 

 Experiment Station, has accepted a position with the University 

 of California as assistant professor of agronomy, beginning 

 January i, 19 14. 



Mrs. Agnes Chase, assistant in systematic agrostology, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, has returned from Porto Rico where 

 she has been collecting and studying grasses for about two 

 months. Of the 123 species of grasses known from the island 

 she obtained all but three, and about 40 additional species. 

 Arthrostylidium sarmentosum Pilger, a climbing bamboo, known 

 only in the" sterile condition, was obtained in flower. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick, curator of paleobotany at the New York 

 Botanical Garden for many years, has resigned to accept the 

 position of curator-in-chief, of the Museum of the Staten Island 

 Association of Arts and Sciences, vacated by the resignation of 

 Mr. C. L. Pollard. 



We regret to record the death of Mr. C. B. Robinson at the 

 island of Amboina announced in the daily papers at Christmas. 

 Details are as yet lacking and the date of his death is unknown. 

 He was collecting there for the Philippine Bureau of Science. 



