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Dr. Duncan S. Johnson, associate professor of botany in Johns 

 Hopkins University, sailed for Jamaica on April 5 with the in- 

 tention of devoting two months to studies at the tropical labora- 

 tory of the New York Botanical Garden at Cinchona. 



Miss Jean Broadhurst (B.S., Columbia, 1903), recently of the 

 New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools, has been appointed 

 instructor in biology and nature-study in the Teachers College, 

 Columbia University, where she will have charge of most of the 

 courses recently given by Professor Francis E. Lloyd. 



The Brown Daily Herald of March 1 2 states that Professor 

 William Whitman Bailey will retire from the faculty of Brown 

 University at the close of the present academic year. He has 

 been a teacher in the University for nearly twenty-eight years, 

 during twenty-five of which he has been professor of botany. 



The sixth annual session of the Minnesota Seaside Station, 

 located on the Straits of San Juan de Fuca, near Port Renfrew, 

 British Columbia, will extend from July 8 to August 18. The 

 botanical courses will be given by Professors Conway MacMillan, 

 Josephine E. Tilden, Fred. K. Butters, and C. Otto Rosendahl, 

 of the University of Minnesota. 



Mr. Harlan H. York, fellow in botany in Columbia University, 

 is acting as a special assistant in the United States National Her- 

 barium for three months beginning April i. During the summer 

 he will assist in the instruction in cryptogamic botany in the 

 biological laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 

 ences at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. 



We learn from the Botanical Gazette for March that Dr. Albert 

 Schneider has resigned the professorship of botany, pharmacog- 

 nosy, and materia medica in the California College of Pharmacy, 

 to accept the position of pathologist and physiologist of the 

 Spreckels Sugar Company and that he is devoting his entire 

 time at present to the investigation of the so-called California 

 sugar-beet blight. 



Dr. Lester F. Ward, who has been paleontologist of the United 

 States Geological Survey since 1881, and is author of the well- 



