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tee, to see the necessity of protecting our least common wild 

 flowers, if any are to be left about the city. 



It may be of interest to state that eight members of the Com- 

 mittee are members of the Torrey Club. 



Repectfully yours, 

 Mabel H. Taylor, 

 Secretary of the Committee. 

 Normal College, Sepeinbter 24, 1901. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Professor F. S. Earle, recently of the Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute, has entered upon his new duties as an Assistant Cura- 

 tor of the Museums of the New York Botanical Garden. Pro- 

 fessor Earle will continue his special studies on the fungi. 



The program for the autumn lectures to be delivered in the 

 Museum Building of the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx 

 Park, on Saturday afternoons at 4:30 o'clock, has been an- 

 nounced as follows : 



October 12th, "Sunlight and Vegetation," by Dr. D. T. Mac- 

 Dougal. 



October 19th, "Botany of the West Indies," by Dr. N. L. 

 Britton. 



October 26th, " Habits and Characteristics of Some of the 

 Larger Marine Plants," by Dr. M. A. Howe. 



November 2d, "Ancestral History of Some Living Trees," by 

 Dr. C. A. Hollick. 



November 9th, " Production of Cinchona Bark and Quinine 

 in the East Indies," by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 



November 16th, " Botanical Features of the Mountains of 

 Colorado," by Dr. L. M. Underwood. 



The lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides and otherwise. 

 They will close in time for auditors to take the 5:38 train from 

 Bronx Park railway station, arriving at Grand Central Station at 

 6:04. 



