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for explorations in western Porto Rico, and the islands of the 

 Mona Passage, planning to return to New York about March i6. 



An American Botanical Exchange Bureau has been started 

 by Mr. G. L. Fisher, 901 Pease Avenue, Houston, Texas. It 

 serves a very useful purpose as a medium of exchange for herba- 

 rium specimens of American and foreign plants. Further informa- 

 tion may be had from Mr. Fisher. 



Dr. C. A. Schenck, who founded the Biltmore Forest School 

 in 1898 and has been in charge of it ever since, announces the 

 discontinuance of the school and his appointment to a position 

 in the government forest service in Germany. 



Yale University has just completed a new laboratory of 

 botany and zoology. The building is an imposing structure of 

 brown sandstone, erected at a cost of about five hundred thousand 

 dollars, and has been named after the donor, Mrs. C. J. Osborn. 

 It is constructed in the shape of an L, one wing being devoted 

 to botany, the other to zoolog3\ The botanical wing, three 

 stories in height above the basement, contains eight large 

 laboratories, a smaller laboratory for graduate students, a small 

 lecture hall, numerous private rooms, rooms for mycological 

 and photographic work, and a capacious herbarium and museum 

 room. In the angle between the two wings is a large auditorium 

 with a seating capacity of three hundred. It is expected that 

 in the near future a plant house with facilities for experimental 

 work will be added. 



Dr. Lazarus Schoney, for some time a member of the Club, 

 died at Coney Island on February 18. He was a Fellow of the 

 New York Academy of Sciences and a member of numerous other 

 scientific bodies. He was born at Budapest, October 18, 1838. 

 Professor W. W. Bailey, for many years the head of the depart- 

 ment of botany at Brown University, died at Providence, R. I., 

 on February 20. The Evening Post writes, in part, as follows: 

 " Professor Bailey was the son of Prof. Jacob Whitman and Maria 

 Slaughter Bailey. He entered Brown University in i860, and in 

 1862 became a private in the Tenth Rhode Island Volunteers. 

 • He returned to Brown and was graduated in 1864. He received 



