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The University of Minnesota Botanical Expedition, with 

 Dr. Ernst C. Abbe in charge, is studying the plants and plant 

 distribution on the east coast of Hudson Bay at Richmond 

 Gulf. 



Dr. George Elwood Nichols, professor of botany and 

 director of the Botanical Gardens at Yale University, died on 

 June 20 at the age of fifty-seven years. 



Dr. T. G. Yuncker, professor of botany at DePauw Uni- 

 versity, is spending a year in the South Pacific making collec- 

 tions and studying the flora of southeastern Polynesia on a 

 Yale-Bishop Museum fellowship. 



Capt. F. Kingdom Ward, English plant explorer, was the 

 guest of honor at the celebration of Botanical Day at the 

 "Gardens on Parade" of the New York World's Fair on July 17. 

 As a feature of the day members of the New York and the 

 Brooklyn Botanical Gardens established a "clinic" in the 

 rotunda of the exhibit and answered questions of visitors con- 

 cerning plant and garden problems. 



The John Burroughs Association desires to get in touch 

 with all organizations in the United States and elsewhere that 

 have been organized in honor of John Burroughs. 



The purpose: To learn whether such groups would be inter- 

 ested in a yearly publication containing reports from these 

 various units, as well as articles about John Burroughs. 



Please communicate with Dr. Clyde Fisher, President, at 

 the American Museum of Natural History, 77th Street and 

 Central Park West, New York City. 



