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July 20. Moonachie, N. J. Guide, Mr. George V. Nash. 

 July 27. Little Falls, N. J. Guide, Dr. H. H. Rusby. 

 August 3. Summit, N. J. Guide, Dr. P. A. Rydberg. 

 August 10. Great Island, N. J. Guide, Dr. H. H. Rusby. 

 August 17. Saw Mill Valley, Borough of the Bronx, New 



York City. Special excursion for mosses. Guides, Mrs. N. 



L. Britton and Mr. R. S. Williams. 

 August 24. Sneeden's Landing, N. Y. Guide, Mr. Norman 



Taylor. 

 August 31. Richmond, Staten Island. Guide, Dr. Philip 



Dowell. 

 September 7. Prince's Bay, Staten Island. Guide, Dr. Arthur 



Hollick. 

 September 14. New Rochelle, N, Y. Guide, Miss Daisy Levy. 

 September 21. Arlington, Staten Island. Guide, Professor L. 



M. Underwood. 

 September 28. Mosholu, N. Y. Special excursion for asters. 



Guide, Professor E. S. Burgess. 

 October 5. Hunter's Island, New York City. Special excursion 



for marine algae. Guide, Dr. Marshall A. Howe. 

 October 12. New York Botanical Garden. Special subject: 



"Variations in Plant Organs; a Study in Morphology." 



Instructor and guide. Dr. C. Stuart Gager. 



NEWS ITEMS 



John H. Schaffner, associate professor of botany in the Ohio 

 State University, will spend the present scholastic year in Germany 

 and Dr. A. Dachnowski will act as substitute for him during his 

 absence. 



Dr. C. B. Robinson, assistant curator of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden since July i, 1906, has been appointed economic 

 botanist of the Bureau of Science of the Government of the 

 Philippine Islands, and is planning to sail for Manila early in the 

 coming year. 



Dr. Harold L. Lyon has resigned the assistant professorship 

 of botany in the University of Minnesota in order to accept a 



