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Hshed through the action of the trustees of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden ; they are to be known as the Rufus J. Lockland research 

 fellowships, in honor of the late president of the board. 



Edward W. Berry, of the Johns Hopkins University, will spend 

 September and October in collecting fossil plants from the Cre- 

 taceous and Tertiary of the Gulf region from Florida to Louisiana, 

 and northward through Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. It 

 is hoped that these collections will have an important bearing 

 upon the correlation of the containing deposits and will serve as 

 a basis for subsequent monographic studies. 



