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den, Dr. Britton gave an account of the recent expeditions of 

 Mr. L.*J. K. Brace to Crooked Island, Acklin's Island, Long Cay 

 (Fortune Island), and Andros, and of his own trip in February and 

 March, in company with Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, to Eleuthera, 

 Little San Salvador, Cat Island, Conception Island, Watling's 

 Island, and Long Island. During the progress of this trip, Mrs. 

 Britton explored the northern part of Eleuthera and did some 

 collecting on New Providence. The greater portion of the archi- 

 pelago has now been visited through the cooperation of the Field 

 Museum of Natural History with the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, but the extreme southeastern islands, including Atwood Cay 

 (Samana), Mariguana, and the Caicos Islands are as yet botan- 

 ically unknown, and the central portion of the large island of 

 Andros is a terra incognita. The small islands on the Cay Sal 

 bank also remain unvisited. Dr. Britton exhibited specimens of 

 many of the characteristic species and remarked on their distri- 

 bution. 



The Club adjourned until October 8, 1907. 



C. Stuart Gager, 



Secretary. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Professor Charles E. Bessey will again be acting chancellor of 

 the University of Nebraska for the four months this summer and 

 autumn during which Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews will be 

 on leave of absence in Europe. 



Professor William Trelease, who has held the chair of botany 

 in Washington University at St. Louis since 1885, was among 

 those who received the degree of LL.D. at the recent commence- 

 ment commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of 

 that university. 



It is stated in the Botanical Gazette that Dr. A. F. Blakeslee 

 of Harvard University has been elected professor of botany in 

 the Connecticut Agricultural College at Storrs, and that he will 

 begin his duties the present year by acting as director of the 

 summer school. 



Mr. Charles Louis Pollard, recently botanical editor for the G. 



