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Mr. Norman Taylor, of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 sailed on August i8 for Cuba, where he will spend several weeks 

 among the mountains near Santiago in company with Professor 

 B. E. Femow, of Ithaca, N. Y. 



Guy West Wilson (B.S., DePauw University, 1902 ; A.M., 

 1903 ; M.S., Purdue University, 1906), and Ralph Curtiss Bene- 

 dict (Ph.B., Syracuse University, 1906) have been appointed 

 assistants at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Professor F. S. Earle has retired from the directorship of the 

 Estacion Agronomica Central de Cuba, a post which he had held 

 since the organization of the institution in the spring of 1904. 

 He will remain for the present on a fruit farm owned by him near 

 Herradura in the Province of Pinar del Rio. 



William Mitten, well known as a bryologist, died at Hurst- 

 pierpoint, Sussex, England, on July 20, 1906. His name was 

 familiar to American students of the mosses especially through 

 his " Bryology of the Surv^ey of the 49th Parallel of Latitude " 

 and by his " Musci Austro-Americani," a volume of 659 pages 

 descriptive of the mosses of South America. 



Henry Allan Gleason (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1906) 

 has been appointed instructor in botany in the University of Illi- 

 nois, where he will have classes in general morphology and sys- 

 tematic botany and will also have charge of the herbarium. 

 The University has recently purchased the botanical collections 

 of F. E. MacDonald, of Peoria, Illinois, containing about 12,- 

 000 sheets of spermatophytes. 



Dr. D. T. MacDougal, director of the department of botanical 

 research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, left New 

 York on August 18 for the City of Mexico. He will devote 

 about six weeks to a study of storage organs of desert plants in 

 the Tehuacan region and to collecting Cactaceae there in com- 

 pany with Dr. J. N. Rose, after which he will return to the 

 Desert Botanical Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona. 



Dr. William A. Murrill, first assistant of the staff of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, returned to New York on August 1 8 



