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Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., succeeding Mr. J. A. Shafer, now of 

 the New York Botanical Garden. 



We note in Sciivnc that Mr. E. W. D. Hoi way, of Decorah, 

 Iowa, the well-known student of the Uredineae, has given his 

 valuable botanical library and his extensive collections of fungi 

 to the University of Minnesota. 



The ninth annual winter meeting of the Vermont Botanical 

 Club was held at Burlington, January 21 and 22. Twenty- 

 four papers were presented. The annual address was given by 

 Marshall A. Howe, of the New York Botanical Garden, under 

 the title of " The Plant Life of the Sea," with lantern-slide illus- 

 trations. The attendance at the various sessions of the meeting 

 ranged from about fifty to two hundred. Under the able leader- 

 ship of President Ezra Brainerd and Professor L. R. Jones, this 

 has grown to be one of the most active and enthusiastic botanical 

 clubs in the United States. 



Botanical visitors in New York City since October 20, 1903, 

 not already mentioned in Torreva, include Professor A. S. 

 Hitchcock, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C; 

 Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago ; Dr. 

 J. W. Blankinship, Montana Agricultural College, Bozeman, 

 Mont. ; John G. Jack, Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; 

 Charles Louis Pollard, Springfield, Mass. ; Professor Henry L. 

 Bolley, Agricultural i^.xperiment Station, Fargo, North Dakota ; 

 Dr. Edgar W. Olive, Harvard University ;■ Dr. Antonio Vaccari, 

 Royal Italian Navy ; Dr. John L. Sheldon, West Virginia Uni- 

 versity, Morgantown, W. Va. ; Professor William C. Coker, Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C. ; President Ezra 

 Brainerd, Middlebury College. Middlebury. Vt. ; Mr. H. L. 

 P^verctt, Sno Paulo, l^razil ; and Professor Alexander W. h^ans, 

 Yale University, New Haven, Conn. 



