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Professor Thomas H. Macbride, who has been head of the 

 Department of Botany in the State University of Iowa for over 

 thirty years, has been elected President of the University. He 

 entered upon his new duties April first. 



At a combined excursion of the Torrey Club and several other 

 organizations held on June 7, more than sixty people attended. 

 The locaHty visited was Cliffwood, N. J., where the hybrid oaks, 

 Quercus Rudkini and Q. heterophylla, were observed, also the 

 marl banks there which contain many cretaceous plant remains. 



Dr. J. W. Harshberger will give tAvo courses in systematic 

 and field botany this summer along ecological lines at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, Long Island, and later on Nantucket. 



The Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlin, who for many 

 years maintained one of the best private collections of orchids in 

 existence, died July 3, at Prince's Garden, London. 



We learn from Magazine San Diego that an official in Mexico 

 was requested by the governor of the state to render a report 

 on the Fauna and Flora of his district. A second more per- 

 emptory demand for the delayed report is said to have elicited 

 the following : ''Dear Sir: Fauna left this locality two weeks ago. 

 Flora is in jail. Awaiting your further instructions, I am, 



" Your most obedient servant, etc. 

 Jose Gonzales." 



