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the Woman's College, Baltimore. Dr. Shreve is now engaged 

 in researches at the tropical laboratory of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden at Cinchona, Jamaica. 



Mr. E. S. Salmon, who for several years has been pursuing 

 bryological and mycological studies at the Royal Botanic Gardens 

 at Kew, has recently accepted the post of mycologist in the 

 Southeastern Agricultural College at Wye, near Ashford, Kent. 

 Mr. Salmon's " Monograph of the Erysiphaceae " was published 

 as a memoir of the Torrey Botanical Club in 1900. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and Dr. Marshall A. Howe, of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, left New York on Februaiy 24, for 

 a few weeks of botanical collecting in Porto Rico and the adjacent 

 island of Culebra. Professor William Morton Wheeler, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, Mr. John F. Cowell, 

 director of the Botanic Garden of Buffalo, and Miss Delia W. 

 Marble, of Bedford, N. Y., are also members of the party. 



