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Dr. Tracy E. Hazen, for the past year director of the Fair- 

 banks Museum, St. Johnsbury, Vt., has been appointed assistant 

 in botany in Columbia University. 



Dr. Alexander W. Evans, of Yale University, and Mr. Percy 

 Wilson, of the New York Botanical Garden, have returned from a 

 successful collecting expedition to Porto Rico. Most of their 

 time was spent in the forest region of the Sierra de Luquillo. 



Dr. N. L. Britton sailed for Liverpool on August 16, with the 

 intention of spending two or three weeks at the Royal Gardens 

 at Kew. He will give special attention to the study of the type 

 specimens of certain American sedges preserved in the Kew her- 

 barium. 



Dr. Alexander P. Anderson has resigned his position as cura- 

 tor of the herbarium of Columbia University in order to devote 

 himself to the economic and commercial development of his new 

 method of treating cereal grains and starchy products. Several 

 patents have recently been granted him by the United States gov- 

 ernment. 



In the list of botanists visiting New York since July 1st may 

 be noted Professors Charles H. Peck, of Albany, N. Y. ; George 

 Macloskie, of Princeton University ; Edward L. Greene, of the 

 Catholic University of America ; A. S. Hitchcock, of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, Washington ; S. M. Coulter, of the Shaw 

 School of Botany, St. Louis ; D. S. Johnson, of Johns Hopkins 

 University ; James Fowler, of Queen's University, Kingston, 

 Ontario ; F. L. Stevens, of the North Carolina College of Agri- 

 culture and Mechanic Arts ; and Harold L. Lyon, of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota. 



