An interesting account of the organization of the botanical 

 wori< of the new Cuban agricultural experiment station is con- 

 tributed to Science of September 30 by the director, Professor F. 

 S. Earle. 



Mr. Ira D. Cardiff, a graduate of Knox College, Galesburg, 

 Illinois, and recently a graduate student at the Chicago Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed an assistant in botany in Columbia 

 University. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd spent two months during the past 

 summer at the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie 

 Institution at Tucson, Arizona, engaged in anatomical and phys- 

 iological studies on the xerophytes of that region. 



Mr. George V. Nash and Mr. Norman Taylor, of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, sailed on October 5 for Great Inagua, 

 Bahama Islands, with the purpose of making collections of living 

 plants and of herbarium material. 



Le Roy Abrams, A.M., recently assistant in botany in the 

 Leland Stanford Junior University, is now in residence in New 

 York as fellow in botany in Columbia University. Mr. Abrams 

 will continue his studies on the flora of southern California. 



The Department of Botany of Columbia University has been 

 awarded a gold medal by the jury of the Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition for its exhibit of specimens in swinging frames. The 

 exhibit was [jreparcd under the direction of Dr. C. C. Curtis. 



An informal reception was held in the rooms of the Depart- 

 ment of Botany of Columbia University on the evening of October 

 4, in honor of Dr. Karl Goebel, professor of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Munich and Dr. Hugo de Vries, professor of botany 

 in the University of Amsterdam. 



The lectures given by Professor de Vries at the University of 

 California during the past summer, are being edited by Dr. D. 

 T. MacDougal and will appear in a volume entitled, "Species 

 and Varieties ; Their Origin by Mutation," to be brought out by 

 the Open Court Publishing Compan}' of Chicago. 



