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Dr. J. N. Rose and Mr. J. X. Painter, of the U. S. National 

 Herbarium, returned to Washington late in September from a 

 three or four months' collecting expedition to Mexico. 



Mr, William R. Maxon, of the U. S. National Herbarium, has 

 been spending a month at the New York Botanical Garden en- 

 gaged in a study of Central American and West Indian ferns. 



Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh, of the Field Columbian Museum, 

 Chicago, was at the New York Botanical Garden for two weeks 

 in the latter part of October and the first part of November, 

 studying some of his collections of Bahamian plants. 



Mr. H. A. Gleason, A.M., recently instructor in botany in the 

 University of Illinois, is pursuing graduate studies in botany in 

 Columbia University. Mr. Harlan H. York, A.M.. recently 

 assistant in botany in the Ohio State University, is the pre.sent 

 incumbent of the fellowship in botany in Columbia University. 



Roland M. Harper, Ph.D. (Columbia, 1905), who has been 

 occupied with botanical studies at Columbia University and the 

 New York Botanical Garden for a large part of the last six years, 

 has accepted a position with the Geological Survey of Alabama, 

 with headquarters at University, Ala. He will be engaged for 

 several months in a study of the economic plants of that State and 

 also, incidentally, of some phytogeographical problems. 



In the Ludwick Institute courses of free lectures on the natural 

 sciences and their applications, under the auspices of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the program for 1905-1906 

 includes a course of five lectures in Noxember and December by 

 Dr. John W. Harshberger under the general title of a "Scientific 

 Account of Marvelous Plants " and a course of five lectures in 

 February and March by Mr. Stewardson Brown on " Wild 

 Flowers and Seasons." 



Botanical visitors in New York since July 15, not otherwise 

 mentioned in Torkfaa. include P. L. Ricker, Washington, D. C; 

 Dr. Robert B. Wylie, Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa ; 

 Professor F. L. Stevens, Raleigh, N. C; Eugene A. Rau, Beth- 

 lehem, Pa.; C. O. Rosendahl, University of Minnesota; S. H. 



