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siz, Dana, Baird, Leidy, and Cope. The brief memorial ad- 

 dresses delivered on that occasion and photographs of the busts 

 are published in the April number of Tlie Popular Science Montlily. 

 Dr. Nathaniel L. Britton gave the address on John Torrey. 



The New York Academy of Sciences will commemorate on 

 May 23, the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus. 

 In the morning of that day there will be addresses at the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History and an exhibition of animals, 

 minerals, and rocks known at the time of Linnaeus ; in the 

 afternoon, in Bronx Park, there will be addresses and exhibits 

 at the Botanical Garden and the Zoological Park and the dedica- 

 tion of the Linnaean Bridge ; in the evening, there will be sim- 

 ultaneous exercises at the Museum of the BrookKn Institute 

 and at the New York Aquarium. 



Dr. Melville T. Cook, recently in charge of the department 

 of plant pathology in the P^stacion Central Agronotnica de Cuba, 

 and for the past few months engaged in research at the New 

 York Botanical Garden, has been appointed professor of botany 

 in Delaware College and plant pathologist in the Delaware 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. Dr. Cook's work, which 

 began April i, will be chiefly research, under the provisions of the 

 Adams Act. His special work for the present will be on the 

 " crown gall " of the cultivated species of Riidiis, which has 

 caused serious losses to the fruit-growers of Delaware. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and Dr. C. F. Millspaugh re- 

 turned during the last week in March from a successful 

 botanical survey of some of the outer islands of the Bahamian 

 archipelago. Visits were made to Eleuthera, Little San Salva- 

 dor, Cat, Conception, Watlings and Long Islands. This was 

 the fourth in the series of expeditions made by Dr. Britton to 

 the Bahamas, and the third by Dr. Millspaugh. The large 

 amount of material thus brought together, supplemented by col- 

 lections made for the New York Botanical Garden by Nash and 

 Taylor and by Brace, and the earlier collections of the North- 

 rops, of Hitchcock, and of Coker, will serve as a tolerably satis- 

 factory basis for a descriptive treatment of the interesting flora 

 of these islands. 



