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NEWS ITEMS 



Professor John M. Coulter, of the University of Chicago, sailed 

 for Europe on October 7, expecting to remain abroad until next 

 April. 



I\Ir. George V. Nash, of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 lectured October 21 at the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, 

 on " Hayti, the Negro Republic." 



Mr. Louis Harman Peet, author of "Trees and Shrubs of 

 Prospect Park," and " Trees and Shrubs of Central Park," died 

 suddenly at his home in Brooklyn on October 18. 



"A Nature Study of Maryland Plants," is the title of an attrac- 

 tively illustrated and popularly written pamphlet by Frederick 

 H. Blodgett, which has recently appeared as vol. 2, no. i of the 

 Maryland Agricultural College Bulletin. 



The program of the autumn lectures of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, to be delivered in the lecture hall of the Museum 

 Building, Bronx Park, on Saturday afternoons, at 4:30 o'clock, is 

 as follows : October 7, " Autumn Features of Native Trees and 

 Shrubs," by Dr. N. L. Britton ; October 14, " Botanical Explora- 

 tions in Hayti," by Mr.Geo. V. Nash ; October 21, "The Facul- 

 ties of Plants," by Dr. D. T. MacDougal ; October 28, " A Sum-- 

 mer in the Desert," by Professor Francis E. Lloyd ; November 

 4, " The Sea-Gardens of Tropical America," by Dr. M. A. Howe ; 

 November 11, " P'arming and Fruit-Growing in Cuba," by Dr. 

 W. A. Murrill; November 18, "Fossil Plants," by Arthur Hol- 

 lick ; November 25, "Tropical Fruits," by Professor H. H. 

 Rusby, 



