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the excursion notify the leader, L. M. Underwood, at Columbia 

 University, as early as possible in order that proper accommoda- 

 tions may be provided. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. B. M. Duggar, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, has been elected professor of botany 

 in the University of Missouri. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd lectured before the Biological 

 Club of Princeton University, May 15, on "The Behavior of the 

 Pollen-Tube in Spermatophytes." 



Professor F. S. Earle returned to New York on May 27 from 

 a collecting trip of two months, mostly spent in the Davis 

 Mountains of western Texas and the Sacramento Mountains 

 of eastern New Mexico. 



Dr. W. A. Cannon, recently fellow in botany in Columbia 

 University, will spend the summer in western North Carolina. A 

 part of his time will be devoted to making collections for the 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



The eleventh session of the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory at 

 Pacific Grove, California, began on June 9, the regular course of 

 instruction closing July 19. Dr. Anstruther A. Lawson, assist- 

 ant in botany at the Leland Stanford Junior University, has 

 charge of the botanical courses. 



The May number of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 

 includes three papers of interest to students of the fungi, viz., 

 "The Nidulariaceae of North America" by V. S. White, illus- 

 trated by five plates ; " Concerning some West American Fungi " 

 by David Griffiths ; and the conclusion of " Supplementary Notes 

 on the Erysiphaceae " by E. S. Salmon, F. L. S. 



Mr. Cyrus G. Pringle, one of the best known of living botanical 

 collectors, has accepted an appointment as keeper of the herbarium 

 of the University of Vermont, where his personal herbarium is 

 soon to be deposited. The same institution has recently ac- 

 quired on deposit the herbarium of the late C. C. Frost, which 

 is especially rich in the cryptogamous plants of the Connecticut 

 Valley. 



