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and botanist, occurred at Germantown, Pa., on November 19, at 

 the age of seventy-five years. 



Dr. John K. Small and Mr. George V. Nash spent the larger 

 part of November in southern Florida, making collections for the 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



The newspapers announce the appointment of Professor F. 

 Lamson-Scribner, agrostologist of the Department of Agricul- 

 ture, as Chief of the Insular Bureau of Agriculture in the Philip- 

 pines. 



Mr. Howard J. Banker, who was a graduate student in botany 

 at Columbia University in 1898— 1900, is now teaching in the 

 Southwestern State Normal School at California, Pa. 



The Society for the Protection of Native Plants has recently 

 issued Nos. 2 and 3 of its series of leaflets for public distribution. 

 No. 2 is a general statement of the aims of the Society, by Pro- 

 fessor George Lincoln Goodale, and No. 3 is " A Plea for the 

 Preservation of Our Ferns," by Mr. George E. Davenport. 



The fifth annual meeting of the Society for Plant Morphology 

 and Physiology will be held at Columbia University on Tuesday 

 and Wednesday, December 31 and January 1. The American 

 Society of Naturalists with which this Society usually meets 

 holds its sessions this year at Chicago. Reports of the Society's 

 committees on the Botanisches Centralblatt and upon the Stan- 

 dard College Entrance Option in Botany will be among the 

 special features of the Columbia meeting. 



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