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commendable and increasingly popular modern tendency to study 

 plants particularly in relation to their surroundings. The pam- 

 phlet is attractively printed and is most fittingly dedicated to the 

 well-known botanical collector, Mr. Cyrus G. Pringle. The 

 Vermont Botanical Club is to be congratulated upon the enthusi- 

 asm and enterprise which have resulted in the publication at this 

 time of such an important addition to the list of American local 

 floras. [M. A. H.] 



NEWS ITEMS 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of the Teachers College, Co- 

 lumbia University, is soon to take a half year's leave of absence. 

 He will spend the time in the laboratory of Professor Strasburger 

 at Bonn. 



The Asa Gray Bulletin and the Plant World have effected a 

 consolidation, retaining the name of the latter. The place upon 

 the editorial board which was to have been filled by the' late 

 Thomas A. Williams of the Asa Gray Bulletin, will be taken by 

 Mr. Cornelius L. Shear. 



Dr. William A. Murrill, whose valuable paper on " The De- 

 velopment of the Archegonium and Fertilization in the Hemlock 

 Spruce {Tsuga Canadensis Carr.)," has recently appeared in the 

 Annals of Botany, is now Instructor in Biology in the Boys' 

 High School, New York City. Dr. Murrill received his degree 

 from Cornell University. 



The last annual meeting of the Society for Plant Morphology 

 and Physiology was held at Baltimore, December 27th and 28th. 

 The presidential address, entitled "A Decade of North American 

 Paleobotany," was given by Professor D. P. Penhallow, of McGill 

 University. Among the papers presented were three by Dr. D. 

 T. MacDougal, with the following titles : " Critical Points in the 

 Relation of Light to Plants," "Propagation of Lysiwachia," and 

 " Germination of Arisaenia." An account of " The Insular Flora 

 of Mississippi and Louisiana," illustrated by lantern views, was 

 given by Professor F. E. Lloyd. Dr. Erwin F. Smith was 

 elected president for the ensuing year, and Professor W. F. 



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