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NEWS ITEMS 



The Macmillan Company announces the approaching publica- 

 tion of a " University Text-Book of Botany," by Professor Doug- 

 las Houghton Campbell. 



Dr. IN. L. Britton, in company with Prof. J. F. Cowell, Director 

 of the Buffalo Botanic Garden, is spending a few weeks in St. 

 Kitts, West Indies. 



Mr. R. S. Williams left New York early in July for Bolivia, 

 where he expects to be engaged for a year or more in botanical 

 explorations. 



Specimen pages of a catalogue of the " Pteridophyta and Sper- 

 matophyta of Southern California," by Mr. Samuel B. Parish have 

 been issued. The volume is published by the Southern California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



" Plant Life of Alabama," a notable work by the late Dr. Charles 

 Mohr, has appeared as Vol. VI. of the Contributions from the 

 National Herbarium. It forms a large octavo volume of 921 

 pages. Dr. Mohr's death occurred on July 17th ; his greatest 

 botanical work was issued on July 31st. 



Miss Olivia E. Phelps Stokes and her sister, Miss Caroline 

 Phelps Stokes, have donated three thousand dollars to the New 

 York Botanical Garden to be employed in special investigation 

 into methods of protecting native plants from extermination. 



The Summer School of Science for the Atlantic provinces of 

 Canada, held at Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, has had this year an 

 enrollment of over three hundred pupils. The botanical instruc- 

 tion was in charge of Mr. G. U. Hay, A.M., and Mr. J. Vroom. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick, recently of the Department of Geology of 

 Columbia University, has been appointed an assistant curator of 

 the Museums of the New York Botanical Garden, where he will 

 have special charge of the palaeobotanical collections. 



Professor L. M. Underwood returned from Puerto Rico in the 

 latter part of July, bringing valuable collections of living plants, 

 seeds and dried specimens for the New York Botanical Garden. 

 He has since been devoting several weeks to explorations in Colo- 

 rado. 



