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will lead a new scientific expedition to the Falkland Islands and 

 Tierra del Fuego. It is planned to leave Goteborg during the 

 present month and to return to Sweden in April or May, 1909. 



Dr. H. H. Rusby, dean of the College of Pharmacy of Co- 

 lumbia University and president of the Torrey Botanical Club, was 

 elected second vice-president of the American Pharmaceutical 

 Association at the meeting held in New York City during the 

 first week in September. Dr. Rusby has recently received an 

 appointment as an official expert in drug products to the Bureau 

 of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



The interesting and important paper entitled " Contributions to 

 the History of American Geology " published last year by Dr. 

 George P. Merrill, head curator of geology, U. S. National 

 Museum, in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution 

 for 1904, includes in an appendix, among biographical sketches 

 of the principal workers in American geology, brief accounts of 

 the lives of many who contributed also to the early progress of 

 botany in America. Among such pioneers, sketches are given 

 of Lewis C. Beck, W. H. Brewer, Samuel B. Buckley, Chester 

 Dewey, Amos Eaton, Ebenzer Emmons, George Engelmann, F. 

 V. Hayden, Edward Hitchcock, Joseph LeConte, Leo Lesquer- 

 eux, Elisha Mitchell, Samuel Latham Mitchill, J. S. Newberry, 

 Robert Peter, J. E. Teschemacher, and F. A. Wislizenus. 



An appreciative article on " The Botanical Garden, New York," 

 containing a considerable amount of rather naive misinforma- 

 tion, is published in TJie Gardener' s Chronicle of London for 

 August 24, 1907, Die Gartemvelt of July 20 being made respon- 

 sible for the particulars. The article begins as follows : 



"An idea of the enormous growth of New York, the second 

 largest city in the world, with its 4,000,000 of inhabitants is ob- 

 tained from the Bronx suburb, which is readily reached by two 

 elevated railways and lies to the north of the city. This terrain, 

 20 years ago, was as difificult to reach as Philadelphia, and pos- 

 sessed a population of about 30,000 persons, distributed over an 

 area of 917 square miles.* There were but few good houses, 



* [The area of the Borough of the Bronx is given in the World Almanac as 40. 65 

 square miles and its population in 1880 as 51,980, in 1890 as 88,908. — Ed.] 



