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lated ? Are our methods at fault ? Is botany placed too early 

 in the high school curriculum ? Do the botanists know where 

 the difficulty lies ? Can we teachers find out ? Send in your 

 criticisms — favorable and unfavorable. Give us any suggestions 

 as to subject-matter and its arrangement, methods, and that bete 

 noir, note-books. 



The sixth and seventh questions will be discussed in the April 

 number. Other questions will be taken up in the following 

 numbers if sufficient interest is manifested in this new departure 



of TORREYA. 



Jean Broadhurst, 



Teachers College. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Carlton C. Curtis has been promoted from instructor in 

 botany to adjunct professor of botany in Columbia University, 



Dr. H. L. Shantz of the University of Missouri has been 

 appointed professor of botany in the State University of Louisiana. 



A Transvaal Biological Society has been formed at Pretoria to 

 promote the discussion and investigation of biological problems. 



Mr. H. R. Fulton of the Louisiana Experiment Station has 

 accepted a position in the department of botany at the Penn- 

 sylvania State College. 



Mr. W. W. Eggleston, who is working upon the North 

 American thorns, has been assigned a research scholarship for 

 two months in the New York Botanical Garden. 



It is reported that Dr. Forrest Shreve, associate professor of 

 botany in the Woman's College of Baltimore, has accepted an 

 appointment on the staff of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of 

 the Carnegie Institution at Tucson, Arizona. 



The January number of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club was made a memorial of Professor Lucien Marcus Under- 

 wood. The longer contributions are by Dr. C. C. Curtis, Dr. 

 M. A. Howe, Dr. J. H. Barnhart and Prof. N. L. Britton. 



"The Guide to Nature and to Nature Literature" is the title 

 of a new magazine which is announced to begin publication this 



