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The University of Iowa has received from Mrs. L. V. Morgan 

 the botanical collections of her husband, the late Professor A. P. 

 Morgan, The mycologi(ml specimens in the herbarium are very 

 valuable, because of Professor Morgan's own work in that line. 



Mr. M. Rothkugel, of the U. S. Forest Service, has gone to Porto 

 Rico for three months, to study the conditions there, and to out- 

 line a course of management for the Luquillo National Forest, 

 the only insular national forest belonging to the United States. 



The new Pacific Scientific Institution which has its headquarters 

 at Honolulu is planning extensive explorations of the Pacific 

 Ocean for the next fifteen years. The work in botany will 

 include the establishment of an acclimatization botanical garden 

 in Hawaii. 



The fifth annual field " symposium," in which the Philadelphia 

 Botanical Club, the Washington Botanical Club, and the Torrey 

 Botanical Club will cooperate, will be held at Georgetown, Dela- 

 ware, July 6 to 12. Particulars as to headquarters, etc., will be 

 announced later. 



Professor Herbert F. Roberts, of the Kansas State Agricultural 

 College and Experiment Station, has been commissioned by his 

 home station to spend the summer inspecting the wheat regions 

 of central and southern Europe in search of superior sorts of 

 hard wheats for introduction into Kansas. 



The centenary of Darwin's birth is to be celebrated at Cam- 

 bridge, England, in 1909. A chair of biology is to be estab- 

 lished, partly through the anonymous gift of ^300 a year, which 

 is contributed upon the condition that the professor shall either 

 teach or make researches in heredity. 



Mr. C. G. Pringle, keeper of the herbarium of the University 

 of Vermont and the veteran botanical explorer of Mexico, is 

 planning to make an expedition to South America in the near 

 future. He intends to go by way of Mexico and Panama and 

 expects eventually to reach the Andean region of Colombia and 

 Ecuador. 



