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no instance in which that was particularly objected to. On the 

 whole, this meeting seemed to demonstrate that a considerable 

 party could go on a week's herborizing, in quest of recreation, 

 with as much success as if hunting, fishing or lounging at the 

 seashore. It showed that a widening of the scope of territory 

 covered was thoroughly practicable. It indicated that the sym- 

 posium as the occasion of a mid-summer gathering or reunion of 

 botanists is now assured and it proved that an absolutely in- 

 formal gathering is not only most desirable but eminently suc- 

 cessful. 



It was decided to hold the next meeting somewhere in the 

 highlands of New York, so as to make it practicable for the New 

 England botanists to avail themselves of an invitation to join 

 us, and it is predicted that next year's symposium will prove even 

 a greater success ; at all events we all promised ourselves to be 

 on hand in 1906. 



J. A. Shafek. 



NEWS ITEMS 



J. Franklin Collins was appointed assistant professor of bot- 

 any in Brown University at a meeting of the corporation of that 

 institution held on June 22, 1905. 



Dr. George T. Moore has resigned his position as algologist 

 and physiologist in charge of the laboratory of plant physiology. 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. Otis W. Barrett has resigned his post as entomologist and 

 botanist of the Porto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 has been appointed "plant introducer" in the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. John Mendlcy Barnhart, editor-in-chief of the publications 

 of the Torrey Botanical Club, who attended the recent Interna- 

 tional Botanical Congress at Vienna as delegate from the New 

 York Botanical Garden, returned to New York on August 2. 



