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" The American Botanist, a monthly journal for the plant-lover," 

 edited and published by Mr. Willard N. Clute of Binghamton, 

 N. Y., is one of the latest additions to the rapidly increasing list of 

 American botanical periodicals. The first number was issued in J uly . 



Mr. Percy Wilson, who accompanied the Todd eclipse expe- 

 dition to the Dutch East Indies in the interests of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, reached New York again on August 20th. 

 Among his collections are interesting exhibits for the economic 

 museum and numerous living orchids. 



The New York Botanical Garden expedition to Nova Scotia 

 and Newfoundland returned to New York on September 9th. 

 About 1 2,000 dried specimens were secured, including 4,000 of 

 marine algae. A considerable quantity of algal material pre- 

 served in fluids was also obtained. 



The department of biology of Teachers College, Columbia 

 University, will move into new and more spacious quarters be- 

 fore the opening of the university in October, a complete suite of 

 large rooms having been remodelled for its accommodation. 

 There will be two large laboratories facing north and east, stock 

 rooms, photographic and physiological dark rooms, and aquarium 

 room, besides the private offices of the instructors. 



Dr. Theodore Greely White, of late an assistant in the depart- 

 ment of physics of Columbia University, died in New York City 

 on July 7th, aged twenty-nine years. Dr. White will be remem- 

 bered as a contributor of articles of merit to the Bulletin of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club and the Asa Gray Bulletin. His chief in- 

 terests during the last four or five years were in the line of geology 

 and physics, but he had remained a member of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club up to the time of his death. 



A " Society for the Protection of Native Plants" has been organ- 

 ized in Boston and vicinity, and leaflets are being published by it 

 directing attention to plants which are in special danger of becom- 

 ing extinct, at least locally. These leaflets are designed for dis- 

 tribution to teachers in the schools and to others in position to 

 further the aims of the society. They may be obtained by ad- 

 dressing Miss Maria E. Carter, Curator of Herbarium, Boston 

 Society of Natural History, Berkeley Street, Boston. 



