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Dr. C. L. Huskins, professor of genetics at McCiill Univer- 

 sity, is at present \isiting professor of l)()lan>' at the Unixersity 

 of California, taking the place of Dr. T. H. Goodspeed who is 

 now in charge of a botanical expedition in the southern Andes. 



Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, curator of botany at the Field Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, Chicago, has returned from northern 

 Brazil. He secured many photographs showing the vegetation of 

 the state of Para and much material that will be used in making 

 dioramas showing tropical plants in their native habitats. 



Dr. H.A.ROLD St. John, of the University of Hawaii, re- 

 turned in September to Honolulu from a four-months collecting 

 trip to Rotuma Island, an isolated volcanic island in the south- 

 ern Pacific, populated by a few whites and about 3,000 Poly- 

 nesians. Its flora was completely unknown. Dr. St. John brought 

 back some 5,000 specimens of native and introduced plants, 

 many are species new to science. 



Guy N. Collins, Principal Botanist in the Division of 

 Cereal Crops and Diseases of the Bureau of Plant Industry in 

 the U. S. Dep't. of Agriculture, died on August 14 at his home at 

 Lanham, Md., in his sixty-sixth year. He had worked on prob- 

 lems of inheritance in maize and the use of biometrical methods 

 in genetic studies. His work helped found the present system of 

 producing hybrid corn commercially. 



Dr. Philip A. Munz, professor of botany at Pomona Col- 

 lege, author of the Manual of Southern California Plants, sailed 

 on December 3 for South America. He will spend several 

 months along the east coast studying evening primroses. His 

 work on this group is being carried on under a Guggenheim fel- 

 lowship. 



Errata 



Page 55, March-April, — For Dr. R. A. Harper read Dr. Roland 



M. Harper. 

 Page 73, May-June— For $1.50 read $1.00. 

 Page 107, July-August — For April 8 read April 5. 



