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August p. — Central Park, New York City. Meet at 106th 

 Street and Fifth Avenue at 2 p. m. Guide, Dr. Schoeney. 



August 16. — Grasmere, Staten Island. Leave foot of White- 

 hall Street at 1.30 p. m. Excursion fare, 20 cents. Guide, Miss 

 Lawall. 



August 23. — Fort Lee and Englewood, N. J. Leave by Fort 

 Lee Ferry at 1.30 p. m. Excursion fare, 30 cents. Guide, 

 Dr. Hommel. 



August jo. — New York Botanical Garden. Leave Grand 

 Central Station at 1.30 p. m. Guide will meet party at Bronx 

 Park Station. 



September 6. — Pelhamville, N. Y. Leave Grand Central Sta- 

 tion at 1.30 p. m. Excursion fare, 60 cents. Guide, Mr. 

 Ericson. 



September ij. — Richmond, Staten Island. Leave foot of 

 Whitehall Street by ferry at 1.30 p. m. Take Midland trolley 

 to Richmond. Excursion fare, 20 cents. Guide, Miss Motts. 



September 20. — Rockaway Park, Long Island. Leave Brook- 

 lyn Bridge at I p. m. Excursion fare, 30 cents. Guide, Mr. 

 McCallum. 



September 27. — Moonachie, N. J. Leave foot of Christopher 

 Street by ferry at 1 p. m. Take Rutherford trolley to Lieve's 

 Road-House. Excursion fare, 20 cents. Guide, Mr. Eugene 

 Smith. 



October 4. — Plainfield, N. J. Leave. foot of Liberty Street by 

 ferry at 10 a. m. Excursion fare, $1.10. Guide, Miss Noll. 



NEWS ITEMS 



F. V. Coville, N. L. Britton, Gifford Pinchot, and J. M. Mac- 

 farlane have been appointed advisers in botany for the Carnegie 

 Institution. 



Mr.. G. V. Nash, head gardener of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, is in Europe for the purpose of visiting and studying 

 some of the botanical gardens of England and the Continent. 



Miss Julia T. Emerson, who has been carrying on special 

 mycological studies at the New York Botanical Garden, has been 



