professor of botan\' In the Northwestern University School of 

 Pharmacy, Chicago, 111. ; and Howard J. Banker, professor of 

 biology in De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, are devot- 

 ing parts of the summer vacation to special studies at the New . 

 York Botanical Garden. 



Mr. Arthur Woodbury Edson, assistant physiologist. Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, died 

 suddenly at Waco, Texas, on June 23. Mr. Edson was a 

 graduate of the University of Vermont and was appointed a 

 scientific aid in the Bureau of Plant Industry in 1901. He was 

 engaged in experiments in plant-breeding upon cotton in Texas 

 and had already obtained wiluable results in the way of produc- 

 ing early ripening varieties which escape the worst ravages of the 

 boll-weevil and possess other desirable qualities. 



Botanical visitors in New York since January 20, not already 

 mentioned in Torreya, include Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Field 

 Columbian Museum, Chicago ; President Ezra Brainerd, Middle- 

 bury College, Middlebury, Vt.; F. V. Coville, C. V. Piper, and 

 William R. Maxon, Washington, D. C; Dr. R. G. Leavitt, 

 Ames Botanical Laboratory, North Easton, Mass.; Professor ¥.. 



C. Jeffrey, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; George K. 

 Osterhout, New Windsor, Colorado; C. G. Pringle, University 

 of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. ; W. H. Blanchard, Westminster, 

 Vt.; Dr. G. Hochreutiner, University of Geneva, Switzerland ; 

 Dr. Anstruther Davidson, Los Angeles, California ; Dr. Clifton 



D. Howe, Biltmore Forest School, Biltmore, North Carolina ; 

 Dr. Otis W. Caldwell, Illinois State Normal School, Charleston, 

 Illinois ; Dr. George H. Shull, Station for Experimental Fivolu- 

 tion, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. ; Dr. Forrest Shreve, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. ; Professor William L. Bray, 

 University of Texas, Austin, Te.xas ; and Professor W. L. Jcpson, 

 University of California, Berkeley, California. 



At the International Jiotanical Congress held in Vienna, June 

 12-17, the American botanists in attendance were Arthur, Atkin- 

 .son, Barnes, Barnhart, Britton, N. L., Britton, ¥.. G., Brown, E., 

 Campbell, Coville, Duggar, Knoche, Perkins, J., Rehder, Robin- 

 son, B L., Shear, Trelea.se, Underwood. The deliberations upon 



