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Professor A. D. Selby, botanist of the Ohio Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, who has been in residence at the New York 

 Botanical Garden since November, has been granted a research 

 scholarship by the Garden for the continuation of his studies in 

 the chemical physiology of plants. 



We are informed that the library of the late well-known bot- 

 anist, Alexis Jordan, of Lyon (i 8 14-1897), will be offered at 

 auction next May. This is said to be one of the largest private 

 botanical libraries in Europe. Paul Klincksieck, 3 rue Corneille, 

 in Paris, is preparing a catalogue of this library, which will be 

 sent free to applicants. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, who, with Mr. Frederick V. Coville, 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has been serving in an advisory 

 capacity in relation to the proposed desert botanical laboratory 

 of the Carnegie Institution, returned to New York on February 

 28, after five weeks spent in visiting portions of New Mexico, 

 Arizona, northern Mexico, and southern California. 



Visiting botanists in New York since December 15, 1902, in- 

 clude Mr. Henri Hus of the University of Amsterdam, Mr. A. F. 

 Blakeslee of Harvard University, Professors L. R. Jones and 

 William Stuart of the University of Vermont, Professor Alexander 

 W. Evans of Yale University, Mr. John C. Willis, Director of 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon, Dr. William 

 Dayton Merrell, of the University of Rochester, Mr. Clifton D. 

 Howe, of the University of Chicago, Mr. E. W. D. Holway, De- 

 corah, Iowa, and Mr. J. A. Shafer, of the Carnegie Museum. 



The announcements of the Marine Biological Laboratory, at 

 Wood's Holl, Mass., of the Ohio State University Lake Labora- 

 tory, at Sandusky, Ohio, and of the Harpswell Laboratory of 

 Tufts College, at South Harpswell, Maine, for the summer of 

 1903, have been distributed. The department of botany of the 

 Wood's Holl Laboratory remains under the direction of Professor 

 Bradley Moore Davis, of the University of Chicago; that of the 

 Sandusky Laboratory is in charge of Professor W. A. Keller- 

 man. Professor J. S. Kingsley, of Tufts College, is the director 

 of the Harpswell Laboratory. 



