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The department of botany of the Marine Biological Labora- 

 tory at Woods Holl, Massachusetts, continues under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. Bradley Moore Davis, of the University of Chicago. 

 The session for the summer of 1902 extends from July 2 to 

 August 13. Dr. George T. Moore, Dr. Rodney H. True, Dr. 

 Henry C. Cowles, Dr. Charles H. Shaw, Professor Andrew C. 

 Moore, Mr. James J. Wolfe, and Miss Lillian G. MacRae are 

 the other members of the botanical staff. 



The Journal of Mycology, the publication of which was discon- 

 tinued with volume 7 in 1894, is now revived by Dr. W. A. Kel- 

 lerman, of the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. This 

 journal was established by Dr. Kellerman and Mr. J. B. Ellis in 

 1885 and later passed under the control of the Division of Veg- 

 etable Pathology of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 volumes 5-7 being published under the latter management. The 

 journal will now be issued quarterly, the May number beginning 

 volume 8. 



The first regular meeting of the New York Naturalists' Club 

 was held at the College of Pharmacy, 1 1 5 West 68th Street, on 

 the evening of May 20. A constitution was adopted, and 

 William L. Sherwood was elected president and Percy G. Doane, 

 secretary and treasurer. The Naturalists' Club aims to be 

 more popular and wider in its scope than the other scientific 

 societies and clubs in New York City. At the June meeting a 

 paper will be read upon the nature and classification of living 

 objects, with an endeavor to show some of the relations of the 

 larger groups. 



The third annual meeting of the Horticultural Society of 

 New York was held at the New York Botanical Garden on May 

 14 and 15. An exhibition of plants and cut flowers, with 

 prizes open to all competitors, was a prominent feature of the 

 meeting. Prizes to the amount of $425 were offered by the 

 Botanical Garden and to the amount of $1 10 by the Horticultural 

 Society. The June meeting of the society is to be held at the 

 Botanical Garden on Wednesday and Thursday, the nth and 

 1 2th, the main feature being an exhibition of roses and other 

 flowering shrubs, peonies, small fruits and vegetables. Prizes 



