River, Alaska," by Dr. Arthur Ilollick ; May 2S, " Arctic and 

 Al[)iiic Plants," by Professor V. K. Lloyd ; June 4, " Carnivorous 

 Plants," by Professor H. M. Richards. 



Dr. James Hyatt, the last of the original members of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, died at Bangall, Dutchess Co., X. Y., 

 on February 27, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. Dr. 

 Hyatt's special work as a lecturer and writer was in the field of 

 chemistry, but like many others of his generation he enjoyed a 

 wide interest in the natural sciences as a whole. Members of 

 the Club will remember the " Reminiscences of John Torrey," 

 contributed by him to the exercises of Torrey Day, celebrated 

 in New York June 27, 1900, in connection with the proceedings 

 of tlic Botanical Section of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



The Fifteenth Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden 

 contains in addition to reports for the year 1903 and library con- 

 tributions the following scientific papers : " An ecological Com- 

 parison of some typical Swamp Areas," by Samuel blonds 

 Coulter (24 plates) ; " Two Fungi growing in Holes made by 

 wood-boring Insects," by Perley Spaulding (3 plates); "An 

 ecologically aberrent Begonia," by William Trelease (2 plates) ; 

 " Aberrant Veil Remnants in some edible Agarics," by William 

 Trelease (10 plates). The number of species and varieties in 

 actual cultivation at the Garden as shown by an inventory taken 

 at the end of 1903 is given as 1 1,357 ; the number of books and 

 pamphlets in the library, 42,262; the number of mounted specimens 

 in the herbarium, 465,205 ; the number of visitors to the Garden 

 in 1903, 79.039- 



Professor F. S. Earle, who has been assistant curator of the 

 New York Botanical Garden since the autumn of 1901, has 

 resigned his position to accept the directorship of the newh- 

 organized Estacion Agronomica Central dc Cuba. Professor 

 Earle spent the month of March and the early part of April in 

 Cuba, engaged in the preliminary work of locating and organizing 

 the Estacion, which is to be at Santiago de las \'egas, about 

 twelve miles from Havana. The staff is to include Mr. C. F. 

 Baker, for the past year assistant professor of biology in Pomona 



