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 NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. John K. Small, curator of the museums and herbarium of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, left New York on October 25 

 for a month's collecting trip to southern Florida. 



We regret to announce the death, on October 1, of Mr. Cor- 

 nelius Van Brunt, a well-known member of the Torrey Botan- 

 ical Club. It is expected that an account of Mr. Van Brunt's 

 life and work will be published in a later number of this journal. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick, assistant curator at the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, returned to New York on September 10 after spend- 

 ing the summer in making palaeobotanical collections and studies 

 in Alaska, under the direction of the U. S. Geological Survey. 

 His party went by way of the White Pass from Skagway to 

 Dawson. From Dawson they floated down the Yukon River by 

 canoe to Anvik, a distance of about 1,200 miles. 



Among the botanical visitors in New York since July 1 have 

 been William R. Maxon and Charles Louis Pollard, of the U. S. 

 National Museum, Washington, D. C; P. L. Ricker, Charles F. 

 Wheeler, and Mrs. Flora W. Patterson, of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, Washington, D. C; Dr. H. N. Whitford and Dr. Bur- 

 ton E. Livingston, of the University of Chicago ; Professor H. 

 Harold Hume, Lake City, Florida; Professor William A. Setchell, 

 University of California, Berkeley, Calif.; Professor K. M. Wie- 

 gand, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; C. Otto Rosendahl, Uni- 

 versity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.; Professor Andrew C. 

 Moore, South Carolina College, Columbia, S. C; Professor 

 William L. Bray, University of Texas, Austin, Tex.; Dr. John 

 W. Harshberger, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia ; Pro- 

 fessor P. H. Rolfs, Miami, Florida ; Professor J. C. Arthur, Pur- 

 due University, Lafayette, Indiana ; H. C. Irish, Missouri Botan- 

 ical Garden, St. Louis; Sir Daniel Morris, Barbados, W. I.; Dr. 

 Max Fleischer, Berlin ; and Mr. A. A. Eaton, Ames Botanical 

 Laboratory, North Easton, Mass. 



