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Kew, being described. Various types of gardening, such as the 

 naturalistic style so much in vogue in England, rock gardens, 

 wall gardens, formal gardens, and water gardens were explained. 



Arthur H. Graves, 



Secretary . 



NEWS NOTES 



It is announced that at the International Congress of Plant 

 Sciences to be held at Ithaca from August i6 to 20 the public 

 addresses will be by Dr. Livingston Farrand, president of 

 Cornell University, W. M. Jardine, U. S. Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, Professor A. F. C. Wentz of the University of Utrecht 

 and Dr. Edwin F. Smith of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 

 The special section meetings will include Agronomy, Cytology, 

 Ecology, Forestry, Genetics, Horticulture, Physiology, Pathol- 

 ogy, Pharmocognosy, and Taxonomy. A large attendance of 

 foreign botanists is expected. 



We learn from Science that Dr. Lewis R. Jones, professor of 

 plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin, is spending the 

 summer in Hawaii studying diseases of the pineapple. 



The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has recently raised a sum of 

 $250,000 to meet a like sum pledged by Mr. John D. Rocke- 

 feller to be devoted to its educational and scientific work. 



From the daily press we have recently heard that two members 

 of the Soveit Botanical Expedition to Siberia have arrived at a 

 station in Bokhara. The party was attacked and plundered by 

 natives, their entire equipment being destroyed. The fate of 

 the other members of the expedition is unknown. 



Science reports that Dr. Duncan S. Johnson of the Johns 

 Hopkins University sailed for Jamaica on July 2nd with a 

 party of nine to conduct researches on the taxonomy and ecol- 

 ogy of the lichens and ferns, the development of the liverworts, 

 the Myrtaceae, the water moulds and banana. 



Dr. Benjamin M. Duggar, Professor of Plant Physiology at the 

 University of Missouri, has been elected a member of the board of 

 trustees of the Bermuda Biological Station. At present he is 

 acting as chairman of the board. 



