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Professor L. M. Underwood of Columbia University, and Mr. 

 O. F. Cook and party, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 sailed for Porto Rico on June 8th for the purpose of studying 

 the flora of that island. 



The death of M. Henri Philibert, the European specialist in the 

 genus Bryum, occurred on the 14th of May at Aix in France in 

 his 79th year. He had just added a tenth article to his series of 

 studies on the peristome, which have appeared in the Revue Bry- 

 ologique. 



The tablet in memory of Asa Gray in the Hall of Fame of the 

 New York University was unveiled on May 30 by Professors B. 

 D. Halsted, B. L. Robinson and L. M. Underwood, representing 

 the Botanical Society of America. 



The third session of the Rhode Island Summer School for 

 Nature Study will be held at the Rhode Island College of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts, Kingston, R. I., from July 5 to July 

 20. The botanical instruction is in charge of W. W. Bailey, H. 

 L. Merrow, F. W. Card, A. B. Seymour and G. E. Adams. 



"The Sea-Beach at Ebb-Tide" is the title of a recent book 

 written by Augusta Foote Arnold and published by the Cen- 

 tury Company. It contains non-technical descriptions and nu- 

 merous illustrations of the larger and more common marine 

 plants of the United States, together with a similar account of 

 the littoral animals. 



The entire palaeobotanical collection of Columbia University, 

 and the books on paleobotany from the University Library, ex- 

 cept such minor part thereof as is needed at the University for 

 undergraduate instruction, will be deposited with the New York 

 Botanical Garden during the coming summer, under the terms of 

 a supplementary agreement recently made between the two insti- 

 tutions. The museum of paleobotany will be installed in one 

 of the well-lighted basement halls of the Museum Building of 

 the Garden. 



