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amelioration of agricultural crops. In presenting this scientific 

 discussion of plant breeding, Professor deVries has given us one of 

 the most valuable contributions to botanical science in recent 

 years. Carlton C. Curtis. 



Colombia University. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Heinrich Hasselbring, assistant in botany in the University 

 of Chicago, has been appointed assistant botanist at the Cuban 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, at Santiago de las Vegas. 



Dr. C. B. Robinson, assistant curator, New York Botanical 

 Garden, spent two or three weeks of his summer vacation in 

 making collections at the Bay of Seven Islands, Saguenay, 

 Quebec. 



Mr. Elmer D. Merrill, botanist of the Bureau of Science of the 

 Government of the Philippine Islands, has recently devoted a 

 week to studies in the herbarium and library of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Mr. Allen H. Curtiss, well known as a collector and student 

 of the plants of the southern United States and of the West 

 Indies, died in Jacksonville, Florida, on September i, in the sixty- 

 third year of his age. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton are spending the month of Sep- 

 tember on the island of Jamaica. It is expected that the south- 

 western part of the island, where comparatively little botanical 

 collecting has been done, will receive a large share of their atten- 

 tion at this time. 



A " readership " in forestry has been established in Cambridge 

 University and the appointment to the new position has been 

 awarded to Dr. Augustine Henry, who is especially well known 

 to botanists by his collections in China and Formosa. Dr. 

 Henry visited the United States and Canada last autumn for the 

 purpose, chiefly, of studying forestry conditions. 



Dr. Carl Skottsberg, who was a member of the Swedish Ant- 

 arctic Expedition of i90i-'03 and has since been engaged in 

 studying his collections of the marine vegetation of that region. 



