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Mr. Frank D. Kern, of Purdue University, has been studying 

 rusts at the New York Botanical Garden ; Dr. J. C. Arthur also 

 spent a short time in more general work at Harvard University. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton have sailed for Cuba on a collecting 

 trip for the New York Botanical Garden ; the Garden is also 

 represented at present in the Bahamas by Dr. J. K. Small, and 

 in Mexico by Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Murrill. 



Applications for grants from the Esther Herrman building 

 fund, the income from which is used temporarily in aiding scien- 

 tific investigations, should be addressed to the secretary of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club or to the secretary of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences. 



Dr. Louis Krauter, who was assistant professor of botany in 

 the University of Pennsylvania, was frozen to death while hunting 

 near Wildwood, New Jersey. The same fate met his companion, 

 E. J. W. Macfarlane, son of Professor John M. Macfarlane of the 

 same university. 



Columbia University is offering through the department of 

 botany a course of extension lectures on agriculture and agricul- 

 tural methods. This series is designed to serve as an introduc- 

 tion to the extensive additions planned by the department, lead- 

 ing, it is hoped, to the establishment of schools of forestry and 

 agriculture. 



At the Boston meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science and affiliated societies the following 

 botanists were elected to the positions designated : Dr. D. T. 

 MacDougal (Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tucson), president of 

 the American Society of Naturalists ; Dr. F. L. Stevens (North 

 Carolina Agricultural College), president of the American Phyto- 

 pathological Society ; Professor D. P. Penhallow (McGill Uni- 

 versity), vice-president of Section G ; Dr. Erwin F. Smith (De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington), Professor L. R. Jones 

 (University of Wisconsin), and Dr. G. T. Moore (Missouri 

 Botanical Garden) were, respectively, elected as president, vice- 

 president, and secretary of the Botanical Society of America. 



