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Lucien Marcus Underwood, Ph.D., LL.D., Torrey Professor 

 and head of the Department of Botany in Columbia University, 

 chairman of the Board of Scientific Directors of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, vice-president of the Torrey Botanical Club 

 and for five years (1898-1902) editor-in-chief of its publications, 

 died on November 16, at the age of fifty-four years. Professor 

 Underwood was eminent for his work on ferns, liverworts, and 

 fungi, and he was well known to the readers of Torreya. 



About four acres of ground have been recently set apart as a 

 botanic garden for the University of Chicago. This piece of 

 ground is easily accessible from the Hull Botanical Laboratory 

 and is to serve as a laboratory garden where experimental work 

 may be carried on. 



We learn from Science that by the will of Mrs. Sarah E. Potter, 

 of Boston, Harvard University received in June a bequest of 

 ;^50,000 to be used in connection with the Gray Herbarium and 

 to be called the Sarah E. Potter endowment fund. "As one of 

 a number of residuary legatees, the university has now received 

 an addition to this endowment of $130,000." 



Clark Hall, of the Massachussetts Agricultural College, the 

 new building named after Colonel William Smith Clark, an 

 enthusiastic botanist and one of the first presidents of the institu- 

 tion, was dedicated on October 2. Professor D. P. Penhallow, 

 D.Sc, F.R.S.C, of McGill University, gave an address on 

 "William Smith Clark : his place as a scientist and his relation 

 to the development of scientific agriculture," and Professor John 

 M. Tyler, Ph.D., of Amherst College, spoke on the subject 

 "Reminiscences of Col. W. S. Clark." 



