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Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of the Desert Botanical Labora- 

 tory, will conduct a botanical course next July in the summer 

 school of Harvard University. 



At Barnard College, Columbia University, Dr. Tracy E, 

 Hazen has been promoted from tutor to instructor in botany, 

 and Miss Marion E. Latham from assistant to tutor in botany. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of botanical research in the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, has recently made an ex- 

 pedition to the Salton Sea in southern California and to adjacent 

 parts of the delta of the Colorado River in Baja California. 



Dr. Tracy E. Hazen of Barnard College gave a lecture on 

 "The Evolution of the Green Algae" at the Brooklyn Institute 

 of Arts and Sciences on March 20. The lecture was repeated 

 on April 3 before the Barnard Botanical Club. 



Mr. William R. Maxon, of the United States National Museum, 

 left Washington on March 24, intending to spend two months in 

 making botanical collections in eastern Cuba, in cooperation 

 with a party of topographical engineers of the United States 

 Army. 



It is announced in Science that Dr. Bradley M. Davis has 

 resigned his connection with the Marine Biological Laboratory 

 at Woods Hole, Mass., and that Dr. George T. Moore of West 

 Chester, Pa., will be in charge of the botanical department of 

 that institution during the present summer. 



Miss Mary Perle Anderson, instructor in botany in Mt. Hol- 

 yoke College, who has been pursuing special studies during the 

 present year in Columbia University, has been appointed critic 

 teacher of biology and nature-study in Teachers College of 

 Columbia University. Miss Anderson will spend the coming 

 summer in Europe, where she will visit several of the larger 

 herbaria and botanical gardens. 



Busts of ten American men of science were unveiled at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, with appropriate exer- 

 cises, on December 29, the ten chosen to be thus commemorated 

 being Franklin, von Humboldt, Audubon, Torrey, Henry, Agas- 



