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Utricalaria among the specimens exhibited from St. Kitts ; by 

 Mr. F. S. Earle on the few fungi collected ; and by Mrs. Britton 

 on the other cryptogams, which numbered 81, and included a 

 Vittaria pro thai Hum. 



Edward S. Burge 



Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Professor W. J. Spillman, formerly of the Washington Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, has been appointed Agrostologist of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture to succeed Professor F. 

 Lamson-Scribner, who has resigned to become Chief of the 

 Insular Bureau of Agriculture in the Philippines. 



The third annual meeting of the Botanists of the Central States 

 was held at the University of Chicago, December 31, 1901, and 

 January 1 and 2, 1902, in connection with the meeting of the 

 American Society of Naturalists. The program, as announced, 

 included twenty-seven botanical papers. 



The seventh annual winter meeting of the Vermont Botanical 

 Club will be held at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Jan- 

 uary 24th and 25th. The annual address is to be delivered by 

 Professor B. L. Robinson, of Harvard University, his subject being 

 " Some recent Advances in the Classification of the Flowering 

 Plants." A full and interesting program is promised. 



A case of " duplication of contributions" comparable with that 

 referred to by Dr. MacDougal in Torreya for November last is 

 an article on " The Nomenclature of Lachnanthes," by James 

 Britten, F.L.S., in the Journal of Botany for January, 1902. In 

 this correction of current nomenclature, Mr. Britten traverses 

 practically the ground covered by Mr. Roland M. Harper in his 

 notes on the "Synonymy of Burmannia and Gyrotheca," pub- 

 lished in Torreya for March, 1 901, and reaches the same results. 



At the Nineteenth Congress of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union, which met in New York City November 11-15, 1901, 



