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Dr. Hugo de Vries, the distinguished Dutch botanist and 

 author of the mutation theory, celebrated his eighty-fifth birth- 

 day on February 16. 



{Science) 



Dr. Arthur Hollick died at his home on Staten Island on 

 Saturday, March 11th. Dr. Hollick had been a member of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club for over fifty-five years, having joined 

 in June 1877 with Dr. N. L. Britton. In 1879 Dr. Hollick and 

 Dr. Britton published a Flora of Staten Island and in subse- 

 quent years added to this. Dr. Hollick's chief interest for many 

 years was in fossil plants. He was appointed paleobotanist at 

 the New York Botanical Garden in 1901 and was on the staff 

 of the garden from that time on. At the Semi-centennial meet- 

 ing of the Torrey Club in 1917 Dr. Hollick read a paper from 

 which the following is quoted: "If I remember correctly, it was 

 in 1876 or 1877 that Doctor Britton and I joined the Torrey 

 Botanical Club. We were classmates in the Columbia College 

 School of Mines at the time and had collected plants together 

 in a more or less desultory way. The only instruction we received 

 in botany was one lecture a week during one term, by Professor 

 Newberry, who also lectured on zoology, paleontology and 

 geology. Attending meetings in those days was not so easy as 

 it is now. I lived at Port Richmond on Staten Island. The last 

 boat to the island was at 9 p.m. I used to take the midnight train 

 on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Liberty Street, get 

 off at Bergen Point Station, walk three quarters of a mile to 

 the shore of Kill van Kull, wake up a man who lived in a little 

 shanty there, and hire him to ferry me over to Staten Island 

 in a rowboat." During all the years Dr. Hollick has been active 

 in the club and has frequently contributed to the programs 

 of the meetings and to its periodicals. 



