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My study of the specimens, in so far as the collections of the 

 New York Botanical Garden illustrate the two species and Mr. 

 Brown's examination of the Philadelphia collections, exclude 

 Leptilon canadense from the West Indies, except Bermuda, and 

 also from the southeastern continental United States, south of 

 North Carolina. 



The figure accompanying the description of L. canadensis in 

 "Illustrated Flora" was drawn from a specimen of L. pusillum. 



NEWS ITEMS. 



We learn from the Evening Post that Miss Flora Anderson and 

 Miss Margaret DeMerritt have been appointed as instructors 

 in botany at Wellesley, and that Miss Grace L. Clapp has been 

 appointed to a similar position at Smith. 



Doctorates in botany were conferred at the close of the summer 

 quarter of the University of Chicago upon Miss Hannah Aase of 

 Washington State College, Professor J. S. Caldwell of Alabama 

 Polytechnic Institute, Professor G. B. Rigg of University of 

 Washington, Professor J. B. Stober, and Miss Eva Schley. 



Mr. Adolph Rolloff, director of the State Botanical Garden in 

 Tiflis, Russia, is visiting the botanical gardens of the United 

 States. 



We learn from Science that Dr. J. J. Tauberhaus has been 

 promoted from assistant to associate research plant pathologist 

 at the Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station. 



From the same source we learn of the death at the age of 

 thirty-seven of Dr. J. E. Gow, who was professor of botany at 

 Coe College. 



Mr. GuyR. Bisby who has been conducting investigations on 

 the potato diseases in Maine during the past summer, has returned 

 to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



At the same institution Dr. R. R. Gates has registered for a 

 time as an investigator and Mr. Alfred L. Gundersen has been 

 appointed as assistant in the herbarium. 



