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on the minute-hand spindle of a cheap clock. This method ob- 

 viates the use of a cylinder, which is difficult to arrange. 

 Adjournment followed. 



Marshall A. Howe, 



Secretary pro tern. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton returned to New York on April 

 3 from a collecting expedition to Cuba. Most of their three 

 weeks on the island was spent in the vicinity of Matanzas. 



The Connecticut Botanical Society's committee on the lower 

 cryptogams has been constituted as follows : Bryophyta : Profes- 

 sor A. W. Evans, New Haven ; Algae : Mr. Isaac Holden, 

 Bridgeport; Fungi: Dr. G. P. Clinton, New Haven. 



We learn from Science that Dr. Frederick DeForest Heald, 

 now professor of biology in Parsons College, Iowa, has been 

 elected adjunct professor of plant physiology and general bac- 

 teriology in the University of Nebraska. 



Professors Volney M. Spalding, of the University of Michi- 

 gan, and W. A. Setchell, of the University of California, have 

 been granted a year's leave of absence by their respective insti- 

 tutions, and will devote this time largely to travels and botanical 

 investigations in Europe. 



Professor F. S. Earle, of the New York Botanical Garden, re- 

 turned on April 2 from Cuba, where, in company with Professor 

 L. M. Underwood and Mr. E. W. D. Holway, he has been mak- 

 ing collections of fungi in the neighborhood of Santiago and 

 Baracoa. Professor Underwood has returned to Jamaica to con- 

 tinue the explorations begun by him there in January. 



