rowth oak forest. This has been carefully gone over to remove 

 ead or diseased trees and much of the underbrush. New trees 

 ative to the region are being set out in the original forest. In 

 the valley below a nursery has been started and all kinds of 

 trees that will grow in this climate are to be planted. The 

 arboretum will be for exhibition and demonstration as well as 

 research on forest problems and will be open to the public. 



Samuel B. Parish, honorary curator of the herbarium of 

 the University of California and lecturer in Stanford Uni- 

 versity, died on June 5, aged 90 years. 



Dr. Charles F. Hottes, professor of plant physiology at 

 the University of Illinois, has been appointed professor of 

 botany and head of the department to succeed Dr. H. L. 

 Shantz, who becomes president of the University of Arizona. 



The new Rose Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was 

 opened to the public on Sunday afternoon, June 2-4:th. It will 

 be open hereafter every afternoon except Sundays and holi- 

 days. In the garden the older horticultural varieties are planted 

 at the north end, the latest introductions at the south. Around 

 the border are different species of Rosa. 



Prof. R. Ruggles Gates, of the University of London, ac- 

 companied by Mr. K. Mellanby of Cambridge sailed on June 

 23 for Canada to make a botanical and anthropological expo- 

 dition down the jXIackenzie River. Facilities for the expedition 

 are being furnished by the Hudson's Bay Company. 



Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott, Professor of Botany and Genetics 

 at the Connecticut Agricultural College has been appointed 

 head of the botanical department of Barnard College, Columbia 

 University, to succeed the late Dr. Herbert Maude Richards. 



