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& C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Mass., has been appointed 

 curator of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, 

 New Brighton, New York. The collections belonging to the 

 Association are now stored in temporary quarters pending their 

 removal to the new Richmond Borough Building, in which the 

 museum is to be located. 



Sir Dietrich Brandis, for many years inspector-general of forests 

 to the government of India, died at Bonn, Germany, May 28, in 

 the eighty-fourth year of his age. In addition to numerous 

 reports on forestry matters, Brandis published in 1874 a work on 

 the " Forest Flora of North-west and Central India " and in 1906 

 a large descriptive volume on " Indian Trees." In connection 

 with his great work as " father of systematic forest management 

 in the British Empire," he is credited with having had much 

 influence in the establishment of an efficient forestry service in 

 the United States. 



Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, for more than forty years connected 

 in an editorial capacity with the Gardeners' Ch'onicle, died at his 

 home in Ealing, a suburb of London, on May 30. Dr. Masters' 

 botanical interests were broad. Besides his numerous writings 

 on topics relating to horticulture and gardening, he was the 

 author of a standard work on "Vegetable Teratology," of 

 " Botany for Beginners," of several papers on the taxonomy and 

 morphology of the Coniferae, was editor of the second, third, and 

 fourth editions of Henfrey's " Elementary Course of Botany," and 

 was contributor of special parts to Martius' " Flora Brasiliensis " 

 and to other important floras. 



