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Professor Ellis A. Apgar, for twenty years state superintendent 

 of public instruction of New Jersey, and one of the authors of 

 " Apgar's Plant Analysis," died in East Orange, N. J., on August 

 28, at the age of seventy years. 



Dr. W. A. IMurrill of the New York Botanical Garden, and 

 Mr. P. L. Ricker of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, devoted a month in August and September 

 to the collection and study of fungi in the Mt. Katahdin region 

 of Maine. 



Dr. Burton E. Livingston of the Bureau of Soils, U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture ; Dr. Forrest Shreve of Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, and Professor Elias J. Durand of Cornell University, have 

 recently spent a few weeks in special studies at the New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Professor L. M. Underwood, of Columbia Universit}', returned 

 from his summer's visit to Europe on September 18. After 

 attending the International Botanical Congress in Vienna, several 

 weeks w^ere given by him to the study of the fern-collections at 

 Prague, Berlin, Paris and Kew. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of the Teachers College, Colum- 

 bia Uni\'crsity, returned to New York late in August after a 

 summer's work at the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution at Tucson, Arizona, where he was engaged 

 chiefly in a study of transpiration of .xerophilous plants. 



Dr. C. Stuart Gager, recently assistant in the laboratories of 

 the New York Botanical Garden and acting professor of botany 

 in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, has accepted 

 an appointment as teacher of biology in the Morris High School, 

 Borough of the l^ronx. New York City. 



Mr. George V. Nash of the New York l^otanical Garden, 

 returned on September 8 from a si.x weeks' visit to Haiti, bring- 

 ing with him a large quantity of herbarium material, living plants, 

 .seeds, etc. On the return voyage ten days were spent on the 

 Grand Turk of the Turks Islands group, where Mr. Norman 

 Taylor, who accompanied Mr. Nash, remained for two weeks 

 longer. 



