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Dr. William C. Sturf^is, formerly mycologist of the Connecticut' 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, has been appointed lecturer on 

 botany in Colorado College, Colorado Springs. 



Dr. C. J. Chamberlain of the University of Chicago started for 

 Mexico late in February to obtain material for use in his study of 

 the spermatogenesis, oogenesis, and fertilization of the cycads 

 Diooii and Ccratozamia. 



Dr. H. X. Whitford, of the University of Chicago, is expecting 

 to sail from San Francisco for Manila on March 26, to engage 

 in botanical work under the direction of the United States Phil- 

 ippine Commission. 



Professor L. R. Jones, of the University of Vermont, is enjoying 

 a half-year's leave of absence from his collegiate and experiment 

 station duties. He is now at the University of Michigan, but 

 will go a little later to Europe. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal returned to New York on March 6 

 from a botanical expedition to Lower California and Arizona. 

 He has brought back a large quantity of living and dried plants 

 from the little-explored regions about the Gulf of California. 



Two able and suggestive papers on eastern violets have 

 recently been published, one by Mr. Witmer Stone under the 

 tide of " Racial Variation in Plants and Animals, with special 

 Reference to the Violets of Philadelphia and Vicinity " printed in 

 the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia for October 1903 (issued December 4), and the other by 

 President Ezra Braincrd under the title of " Notes on New Eng- 

 land Violets" in R/iodora for January, lioth are based on much 

 continuous observation of colonies of living plants representing 

 various species and forms. Dr. Braincrd emphasizes the diag- 

 nostic value of the mature capsules. 



