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NEWS ITEMS 



On account of the interest attaching to the man about whom 

 Dr. Harshberger has written the first article in this issue of 

 ToRREYA we are glad to mention that a facsimile reprint of the 

 only American copy of his "Catalogue d'Arbes, Arbustes et 

 Plantes Herbacees d'Amerique " has been issued. This catalog 

 was reviewed in a recent issue of Torreya and may be pur- 

 chased from S. N. Rhoades, 920 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 



At the meeting to commemorate the one hundredth anniver- 

 sary of the New York Academy of Sciences, held Monday 

 evening, May 28, Dr. N. L. Britton spoke on the Academy's ex- 

 ploration of Porto Rico, and Dr. J. Hendley Barnhart gave a 

 summary of the last hundred years of the work of the Academy. 

 The President, Dr. M. I. Pupin, spoke on the help that science 

 could give the nation to win the war. 



