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Other especially interesting plants exhibited were Romneya 

 trichocalyx Eastw., Qncrcus Eiigebuanni Greene, and Calochortus 

 Cataliiue Wats. 



The paper was discussed by Dr. Britton and Mr. Nash. 

 Adjournment followed. 



Edward W, Berry, 



Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Mr. William R. Maxon of the U. S. National Museum is 

 spending several months in Guatemala, engaged in researches for 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



With the January number. The Plant World passes under the 

 management and editorship of Professor Francis P>. Lloyd, of the 

 Teachers College, Columbia University. 



Professor H. Harold Hume, recently of the University of 

 Florida, is now horticulturalist of the State Board of Agriculture 

 of North Carolina, with headquarters at Raleigh. 



F. M. Rolfs, lately of the Colorado Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, has been appointed professor of botany and horticulture 

 in the University of Florida, Lake City, Florida. 



Professor F. S. P^arle, director of the Estacion Central Agro- 

 nomica de Cuba, spent the last two weeks of December in New 

 York and Philadelpliia, sailing for Cuba again on the 31st. 



At the December convocation of the University of Chicago, 

 two candidates in botany, Minton Asbury Chrysler and Clifton 

 Durant Howe, received the degree of doctor of philosophy. 



The Apteryx, a quarterly devoted to natural history, published 

 by the Roger Williams Park Museum of Providence, Rhode 

 Island, C. Abbott Davis, editor, begins its existence with the 

 number for January, 1905. 



The daily papers announce the death of Rev. F. D. Kelsey, 

 pastor of the Central Congregational Church of Toledo, Ohio, 

 and formerly professor of botany in Obcrlin College, at the age 

 of fifty-six years. 



