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Professor John Macoun (Sussex Street, Ontario, Canada) is 

 issuing a series of Canadian mosses. The set will number 500 

 in all; the price is $8.00 a hundred. Some subscriptions are 

 still open, although about half of the series have already been 

 issued. Collectors may also secure for the sum of five dollars a 

 collection of one hundred British hepatics. This set, which 

 includes many rare species, is offered by W. H. Pearson (18 

 Palatine Road, Manchester, England). 



In the recent forest fires which raged for many days in northern 

 California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana incalculable 

 damage was done to the forested government reserves and a num- 

 ber of forest rangers lost their lives. Even the more conservative 

 newspapers reported some dozen fire fighters as dead or missing 

 and an equal number of other citizens as killed by the fires. 

 The fires, many of which were thought to be of incendiary origin 

 and aimed by spite or private greed against government rangers 

 and reservations, became gigantic conflagrations miles in length 

 in some parts of the northwest. The efforts of the fire fighters 

 proved futile in several cases, and the fires were extinguished 

 only by the long-delayed rains. The later forest fires in Minne- 

 sota and Canada have been equally severe — both in the number 

 of lives lost and in the amount of property destroyed. 



