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at the recent spring meeting of the executive committee of the 

 American Association. According to the records at the time 

 of that meeting the Torrey Botanical Club has 300 members, of 

 whom 149, or nearly one-half, are members of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science. Of these 149, 

 104 are fellows. The Torrey Botanical Club will accordingly 

 have two representatives in the council of the American Associa- 

 tion, who are to be ex-ofificio members of the section committee 

 of Section G. A full report of this business will be included in 

 the minutes of the meeting of the Club of May 25. 



At Bear Mountain the Interstate Park Commission and the 

 American Museum of Natural History are cooperating in an 

 extensive outdoor museum. One feature of this will be a wild 

 plant trail with all the plants native to the region labeled, with 

 notes of interest with each. Several thousand plants have been 

 brought in from other parts of the park and planted along this 

 trail. Another trail will have along it all the native wild animals 

 of the region, in cages. The work is in charge of Mr. William 

 Carr of the American Museum. 



On May 17th Mr. Barbour Lathrop of San Francisco died 

 in Philadelphia. Mr. Lathrop was in his 80th year. He had 

 travelled extensively collecting rare plants, many of which 

 he sent to the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Dr. William P. Wilson, formerly professor of botany at the 

 University of Pennsylvania and since 1894 director of the 

 Philadelphia Commercial Museums, died on May 12, aged 

 eighty-three years. 



Dr. Edwin B. Payson, Professor of Botany at the University 

 of Wyoming died on the fifteenth of May. He was well known 

 for his contributions in systematic botany and had been very 

 prominent in social and intellectual activities of the University. 

 At the time of his death he was preparing to sail for Europe to 

 carry on research work at Kew Gardens under a Guggenheim 

 fellowship awarded him this spring in recognition of his achieve- 

 ment in botanical work. Dr. Payson was a member of many 

 scientific and honorary societies. He was thirty four years old.. 



