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American Indian origin, and contributed papers on this subject 

 to Garden &^' Forest in 1895 and 1896. Otherwise his botanical 

 studies seem to have ended with the year 1885. 



Miss Jean Broadhurst has been awarded the degree of Doctor 

 of Philosophy by Cornell University and has been appointed 

 assistant professor of biology at Teachers College. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and party have returned from bo- 

 tanical explorations in Porto Rico. 



We learn from Science that Professor Charles E. Bessey, of the 

 University of Nebraska, is spending the month of March at the 

 Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution near 

 Tucson, Arizona. Professor Bessey plans to study and collect 

 material of numerous species of the desert flora. While he is 

 away Dr. R. J. Pool is in charge of the department of botany at 

 the University of Nebraska. 



Dr. Simon Schwendener, professor of botany at Berlin, has 

 celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday. 



It is stated in Science that Mr. J. Adams, assistant in botany 

 in the Royal College of Science, Dublin, has been appointed to a 

 position under the Canadian government. 



