NEWS ITEMS 



Mr. Percy Wilson and Mr. William T. Hornc sailed from New 

 New, June 25, to take u[) their work as assistant botanist and 

 assistant pathologist, respectively, at the Estacion Agronomica, 

 Santiago dc las Vegas, Cuba. 



Professor H. II. Rusby is at Kew, engaged in the critical com- 

 parison of South American material from the herbarium of the 

 New York Botanical Garden with that preserved in the herbarium 

 of the Royal Gardens. 



Professor Duncan Starr Johnson, of Johns Hopkins University, 

 and Miss Mary PLstella Gottert Lentz, of Baltimore, were married 

 June 22, 1904. After spending the month of July at the biolog- 

 ical laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, Professor and Mrs. John- 

 son intend to sail for l^urope early in August. 



The most noteworthy botanical event in New York during 

 June was the visit of Professor Hugo de Vries, of Amsterdam, 

 Holland. He arrived June 7, received the degree of Doctor 

 of Science from Columbia University on the following day ; de- 

 livered the address at the opening exercises of the Station for 

 Experimental Evolution, at Cold Spring Harbor, June 1 1 ; on 

 June 14 started for Philadelphia ; and thence proceeded to the 

 Desert Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona, in the company of Pro- 

 fessor F. E. Lloyd. He remains in this countr}' until the first of 

 October. 



The Hulst Botanical Club of Brooklyn, N. Y., was organized 

 on April 13, 1904. The club was named in memory of Dr. 

 George D. Hulst, who for many years was president of the De- 

 partment of Botany of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 

 Dr. Hulst was probably the best informed botanist of the flora 

 of Long Island. The object of the club is the mutual benefit 

 to its members and the increase of interest in botanical subjects. 

 The special work the club has undertaken is the making of an 

 exhaustive list of the flora of Long Island. Dr. A. J. Grout 

 was appointed director of the club. Mrs. Carol)'n W. Harris, 

 secretary. At the first meeting of the Hulst Botanical Club the 



