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Dr. Duncan S. Johnson and Mr. Forrest Shreve, of Johns 

 Hopkins University, left Baltimore on April 8 for Jamaica, where 

 they expect to collect materials for special botanical researches. 

 Mr. William R. Maxon, of the U. S. National Herbarium, has 

 recently joined Professor Underwood in Jamaica. 



Professor F^ S. Earle sailed for Porto Rico on May 9, com- 

 missioned by the Office of Experiment Stations of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, to make some special investigations 

 on diseases of economic plants of the island. He has been 

 granted a few weeks' leave of absence for this purpose by the 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



Teachers College, Columbia University, has secured control of 

 an adjacent vacant lot, on which a school garden, under the 

 direction of Professor Francis E. Lloyd, has been started. During 

 the summer, a greenhouse, the gift of Mr. George Foster Pea- 

 body, will be erected on this plot. 



The editor of Torreya sailed from New York on May 9 for 

 Porto Rico, expecting to devote about two months to making 

 collections and field studies of the marine algae of that island. 

 Contributions intended for publication in Torreya may be ad- 

 dressed in the meantime to Dr. John Hendley Barnhart, N. Y. 

 Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York City. 



The Fourth Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York will be held at the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden, Bronx Park, May 13 and 14. The exhibition 

 will be held in the hall of the Museum Building, and will be 

 open to the public from I until 6:30 P. M. on Wednesday, May 

 13, and from 10 A. M. until 5 P. M. on Thursday, May 14. 

 At 4:25 P. M. on Wednesday, there will be an illustrated address 

 by Mr. John K. L. M. Farquhar on " The Flowers, Fields, and 

 Woods of Japan." 



The program of the spring lectures at the New York Botanical 

 Garden is as follows: April 18, "A Tour of American Deserts," 

 by Dr. D. T. MacDougal ; April 25, "The Vegetation of the 

 Florida Keys," by Dr. M. A. Howe ; May 2, "The Framework 

 of Plants," by Dr. H. M. Richards ; May 9, " Illustrations of 

 Some Features of the West Indian Flora," by Dr. N. L. Britton ; 

 May 16, " The Food Supply of Young Plants," by Professor F. E. 

 Lloyd; May 30, "The Color- Variations of Flowers," by C. C. 

 Curtis ; June 6, " The Streams, Lakes and Flowers of the Upper 

 Delaware, and the Story of the Sundew," by Mr. Cornelius 

 Van Brunt; June 13, "Vegetable Foods," by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 

 The lectures are delivered in the auditorium of the Museum 

 Building of the Garden, Bronx Park, on Saturdays, at 4:30 p. m. 



