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On motion, the thanks of the Club were voted Mrs. Cunning- 

 ham for her interesting exhibition of flower paintings. 



F. S. Earle, 

 Secretary. 

 NEWS ITEMS 



We learn from Science that Dr. E. B Copeland, recently in- 

 structor in Stanford University, sailed for Manila in November 

 to become chief botanist for the United States Philippine Com- 

 mission. 



Dr. George T. Moore, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, is spending a month in bac- 

 teriological studies in Dr. Winogradsky's laboratory in St. Peters- 

 burg. 



Mr. J. A. Shafer, recently of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., has been appointed custodian of the museums of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, and began his new duties on Novem- 

 ber 16. 



Mr. Roland M. Harper is spending two or three months in 

 Georgia, engaged in making collections of trees and woods for 

 the State exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. 

 Louis. 



Mr. C. L. Shear, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, 

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

 and Professor A. D. Selby, of the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, have been devoting a month to carrying on special re- 

 searches at the New York Botanical Garden. 



A new botanical serial, " Leaflets of Botanical Observation and 

 Criticism," by Professor Edward L. Greene, of the Catholic Uni- 

 versity of America, made its appearance in November. The first 

 number contains articles under the following titles, " Distribution 

 of Bidcns vulgata" "A new southern Violet," "In the wrong 

 Genus," " Further Segregates from Aster,'" " Neglected Eupator- 

 iaceous Genera," and " The Logic of it," the latter covering com- 

 ments on Dr. Barnhart's remarks on " Duplicate Binomials," 

 published in the September Torreya. 



