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liser will have charge of the botanical courses in Vassar during 

 the coming year. 



We note with regret the death of a former member of the Club, 

 Mr. Samuel Henshaw, which occurred at West New Brighton, 

 Staten Island, on July 22. Mr. Henshaw was head gardener 

 of the New York Botanical Garden from the beginning of its 

 active development in 1896 to 1901. 



Mr. Edward W. Berry, of the Johns Hopkins University, is 

 spending two months in a field study of the Mesozoic deposits of 

 Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Important plant- 

 bearing beds have already been discovered in several localities in 

 North Carolina and in one locality in South Carolina. 



The thirteenth annual field meeting of the Vermont Botanical 

 Club was held in Pownal, Vermont, July 2 and 3, 1907. About 

 forty persons were in attendance, including several members of 

 the Connecticut Botanical Club. Tuesday, July 2, was devoted 

 to exploring the limestone cliffs at North Pownal, under the 

 guidance of Mr. W. W. Eggleston, while Wednesday, the 3d, 

 was spent in visiting the bogs of the central and eastern parts of 

 the town. Miss Grace Greylock Niles, author of " Bog-trotting 

 for Orchids," acting as guide. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, formerly of the Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, and more recently connected with the 

 Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, has 

 accepted a position as botanical expert with the Continental 

 Rubber Company of America, which owns very extensive tracts 

 of land in central Mexico and has its headquarters in New York 

 City. Dr. J. E. Kirkwood has resigned his professorship of 

 botany in Syracuse University in order to assist Professor Lloyd 

 in this new work, which they have already begun. The main 

 plant of the company is located at Torreon, State of Coahuila, and 

 it is understood that the " guayule," a composite of the genus 

 Pai'theuhon, is the source of the rubber obtained. The present 

 address of Professors Lloyd and Kirkwood is Hacienda de Ce- 

 dros, Mazapil, Zacatecas, Mexico. 



