Mr. Percy Wilson, museum aid at the New York Botanical 

 Garden, left New York on January 3 for Honduras, where he 

 expects to devote several weeks to making collections. 



Dr. Tracy Elliot Hazen has been appointed tutor in botany in 

 Barnard College, succeeding Miss Louise B. Dunn, whose recent 

 death is elsewhere noted in this number of Torreya. 



Dr. John Hendley Barnhart, of Tarry town, N. Y., has been 

 elected editor-in-chief of the publications of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club, succeeding Professor Underwood, who has resigned on 

 account of prolonged absence from the country. 



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

 of Vermont, who has recently returned from a successful season 

 in Mexico, left on January 8 for Cienfuegos, Cuba, to spend sev- 

 eral weeks in making botanical collections and in aiding some 

 experiments in plant-breeding. 



Professor L. M. Underwood, of Columbia University, has gone 

 to the West Indies to engage in six months' study of the tropical 

 American ferns. He will be in Jamaica two separate periods of 

 six weeks or more with about the same length of time in eastern 

 Cuba, and at a later date a short period in Dominica. He ex- 

 pects to be absent from the country until September. 



The eighth annual winter meeting of the Vermont Botanical 

 Club was held at Burlington, January 16 and 17. The annual 

 address was by Mr. Clifton D. Howe, of the University of Chicago, 

 on "Some Results of Deforestation in Vermont." "Vermont 

 Violets," by President Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College ; 

 "The Pollution of Water Supplies by Algae," by Dr. G. T. 

 Moore, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, and " The 

 Thelephorae of Vermont," by Professor E. A. Burt, of Middle- 

 bury College, were among the titles of the twenty-one other 

 papers presented. 



Mr. K. Yendo in an interesting paper on the " Uses of Marine 

 Algae in Japan," published in Vol. I. of Postc/sia, the Year Book 

 of the Minnesota Seaside Station, gives some surprising statistics 

 relative to the export of certain dried kelps (species of Laminaria) 

 intended chiefly for the markets of China. In 1894, 35,851,245 



