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There was no business to be transacted. The announced 



program consisted of an illustrated lecture on "A decade of the 



Salton Sea," by Dr. D. T. MacDougal. 



Adjournment followed. 



B. O, Dodge, 



Secretary 



NEWS ITEMS 



Rev. E. J. Hill, of Chicago, whose botanical papers have 

 appeared in various journals for many years, died January 22, 

 in his eighty-fourth year. 



Exercises on the occasion of the dedication of the completed 

 laboratory building and plant houses of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden are planned for April 19, 20, 21. The new building and 

 greenhouse additions will be completed by that time. Sessions 

 for the reading of scientific papers and a public reception are 

 among the events planned. Members of the Club are invited 

 to the scientific meetings, and further particulars will be pub- 

 lished in the March number. 



Mr. H. E. Thomas, instructor in botany at the Virginia 

 Polytechnic Institute, sailed on March 3, to Mayaguez, to do 

 work in plant pathology at the Federal Experiment Station, 

 Porto Rico. 



Mr. Lex Hesler of Cornell University, has been granted a 

 year's leave of absence to study plant diseases in Porto Rico. 

 He sailed for Mayaguez on February loth. 



