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Burnham, Albany, N. Y.; Professor George Macloskie, Princeton 

 University ; President Ezra Brainerd, Middlebury College, Mid- 

 dlebury, Vt.; Perley Spaulding, St. Louis, Mo.; Dr. Duncan S. 

 Johnson, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. ¥.. H. 

 P^ames, Bridgeport, Conn.; W. H. Blanchard, Westminster, Vt.; 

 David G. Fairchild, U. S. Department of Agriculture ; and Pro- 

 fessor George E. Stone, Amherst, Mass. 



Mr. R. S. Williams returned to New York on October 24 from 

 a two years' visit to the Philippine Islands, where he has been 

 making botanical collections for the New York Botanical Garden. 

 His collections, which include spermatophytes, pteridophytes, 

 bryophytes and lichens, have been secured in central and northern 

 Luzon, in southern Mindanao and in Jolo. Mr. Williams had 

 the misfortune to lose the results of about three months' work- 

 by a fire, but his collection remains one of the most extensive 

 and doubtless the best in quality of an)- that have been brought 

 from the Philippines. 



