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connection between the rapidity of regeneration and the charac- 

 ter of the organ produced. 



Dr. P. A. Rydberg gave the second paper, which was on 

 "Some generic segregates." This is soon to be published in the 

 Bulletin. 



Both papers were discussed at some length by several mem- 

 bers of the club. 



W. A. Cannon, 



Secretary pro tern. 

 NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Arthur Hollick recently started for the Yukon region, to 

 make a study of its fossil flora. His route is overland from 

 Skagway to Dawson, thence down the Yukon river to its mouth, 

 with brief stops at points where it is desired to carry on special 

 investigations. This work has been undertaken in connection 

 with the United States Geological Survey. 



Professor L. M. Underwood, who has been engaged in field 

 study in Jamaica and Cuba since January, and who had intended 

 to go by direct steamer from the West Indies to England, sur- 

 prised his family and friends by returning to New York about 

 the middle of May. He sailed for Europe June 6, and intends 

 to spend the summer in England and on the Continent. 



The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America held a 

 meeting under the auspices of the Olivia and Caroline Phelps 

 Stokes Fund for the Protection of Native Plants in the museum 

 building of the New York Botanical Garden, Saturday evening, 

 May 16, 1903. Mr. Charles Louis Pollard, of the United States 

 National Museum, delivered an illustrated lecture on " Vanishing 

 Wild Flowers." 



Mr. John A. Shafer, Custodian in Botany of the Carnegie 

 Museum at Pittsburgh, who accompanied Dr. and Mrs. Britton 

 to Cuba in March, and remained there after they returned, has 

 reached home. He made extensive collections in the provinces 

 of Havana and Pinar del Rio, and spent some days working upon 

 them at the New York Botanical Garden before returning to 

 Pittsburgh. 



