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awarded to Miss Mary Perle Anderson, of Chicago ; tlie second, 

 of fifteen dollars, to Miss Jean Broadhurst, of Trenton, N. J.; 

 and the third, of ten dollars, to Mr. George Gordon Copp, of 

 New York Cit)'. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and Dr. Marshall A. Howe spent 

 three or four weeks in March and April in making botanical col- 

 lections in southeastern Florida, with Miami as a base, and on 

 New Providence, Bahamas. Afterwards, Dr. Howe, in company 

 with Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, of the Field Columbian Museum, 

 Chicago, made the return trip from Nassau to Miami in a sail 

 boat, taking ten days for the voyage and making collections on 

 the Joulter Cays, Gun Cay, the Cat Cays and the Bemini Cays. 



Fascicle I of Dr. Janet Perkins' " Framenta Florae Philippinae " 

 has recently been published by the Gebriider Borntraeger. This 

 first fascicle is devoted chiefly to an " Enumeration of some of 

 the recently collected plants of Ahern, Jagor, Lohor, Merrill, 

 Warburg, and others." The author, whose work is being car- 

 ried on at the Botanical Museum of Berlin, has the collaboration 

 of Doctors Brand, Lindau, von Seemen, Graebner, Schlechter, 

 Beccari, Warburg and Radlkofer in the treatment of certain 

 families. 



Professor Hugo de Vries, of Amsterdam, has engaged to de- 

 liver a course of lectures on " Mutation " at the summer session 

 of the University of California in June and July, He is also to 

 give a series of five lectures at the University of Chicago, August 

 22-26. Professor de Vries expects to reach New York on June 

 6. He will spend a few days at the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, and on June i i will deliver the address at the dedicatory 

 ceremonies of the Station for P.xperimental P2volution of the Car- 

 negie Institution at Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 



The course of popular lectures offered by the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden for the spring of 1904 is as follows : April 30, 

 "Jajian, the Land of Lacquer and Bamboo," by Dr. C. F. 

 Millspaugh ; May 7, " The Form, Habits and Relationships of 

 the Cactuses," by Dr. N. L. Britton ; May 14, "The Vegetation 

 of the Delta of the Colorado River, and of l^aja California," by 

 Dr. D. T. MacDougal ; May 21, " Explorations on the Yukon 



