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One of the latest results of the remarkable activity of American 

 mycologists and mycophagists is " The Mushroom Book " by Miss 

 Nina L. Marshall. It is expected that a review of this will ap- 

 pear in an early number of Torreya. 



Mr. George V. Nash, Head Gardener of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, has gone to the Royal Gardens, at Kew, Eng- 

 land, on the invitation of the Director, Sir W. T. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, for the purpose of selecting duplicate living plants from 

 the Kew collections and shipping them to New York. Mr. 

 Nash will also carry out some studies on grasses in the Kew 

 herbarium. 



Five of the papers presented at the meeting of the fern students 

 held in New York City on June 27, 1900, under the auspices of 

 the Linnaean Fern Chapter, have been published by the Chapter 

 in pamphlet form under the collective title of " Fernwort Papers." 

 They are : "The Genus Isoetes in New England," by A. A. 

 Eaton ; " The system of Ferns proposed in ' Die naturlichen 

 Pflanzenfamilien,' " by Lucien M. Underwood ; " Experiments in 

 hybridizing Ferns," by Margaret Slosson ; "Athyrium as a 

 Genus," by B. D. Gilbert ; and " On the Occurrence of the Hart's- 

 tongue in America," by William R. Maxon. 



The announcement for the fourteenth season of the Marine 

 Biological Laboratory at Woods Holl, Massachusetts, has recently 

 been issued. The season extends from Wednesday, July 3, 

 to Wednesday, August 14, 1901. The botanical staff consists of 

 Dr. Bradley Moore Davis, Instructor in Botany, University of 

 Chicago ; Dr. George T. Moore, Instructor in Botany, Dartmouth 

 College ; Dr. Rodney H. True, Lecturer in Harvard University ; 

 Dr. Charles H. Shaw, Professor of Botany, The Temple College ; 

 Mr. Anstruther A. Lawson, Fellow in Botany, University of 

 Chicago ; and Miss Lillian G. MacRae, Curator and Collector 

 in Botany. Copies of the announcement maybe obtained of Dr. 

 Bradley M. Davis, University of Chicago. 



