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Dr. Tracy Hazen exhibited a hybrid between Asl^lcuiiiin Ruta- 

 muraria and A. Tricliouiaius from Vermont. 

 Adjourned until the ne.xt stated meeting. 



C. Stuart Gager, 



Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton was elected president of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences at the annual meeting held on De- 

 cember 1 8. 



Francis E. Lloyd has resigned his professorship in the Teachers 

 College, Columbia University, to become a member of the staff 

 of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Listitution at 

 Tucson, Arizona. 



Professor William A. Kellerman, of the Ohio State Universit)', 

 sailed from New Orleans December 21 for Guatemala, where he 

 will continue his collections and field studies of the parasitic fungi 

 of that region. He is accompanied by a student assistant, Mr. 

 A. W. Smith. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal has resigned his position as assistant 

 director of the New York Botanical Garden to accept that o{ 

 director of the department of botanical research of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. His address for the coming year will 

 be Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona, except from 

 May I to September i, when it will be the New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



The course of lectures and demonstrations in connection witli 

 the nature-study work of the 4 B grade of tlie i)ublic schools of 

 the Borough of the Bronx, begun by the New \'ork l^otanical 

 Garden as an experiment last spring, has been continued during 

 the months of October, November and December, and has been 

 extended so as to include also the work of grade 5 B. The 

 exercises have been attended by nearly four thousand different 

 pupils and teachers, those of grade 5 W attending three times, 

 those of 4 B twice. Lectiucs have been given by N. L. liritton, 

 H. II. Rusby, (i. V. Nash, W. A. Murrill and M. A. Howe. 



