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The eighth forestry lesson, announced to be given at P'ort 

 Lee. New Jersey, on September 22, with Dr. C. C. Curtis as 

 instructor and guide, was prevented by a heavy rain. 



On September 29, seven members of the Club held a field 

 meeting at West Orange, New Jersey, under the guidance of Mr. 

 Percy Wilson. The "first" and "second" mountains were 

 visited. Lycopodiinn bicidiihim, Corallorhiza odontorliiza, Vitis 

 cordifolia, and the fringed and closed gentians, were among the 

 plants noted. Some attention was paid to the violets, especially 

 to apparently connecting forms between Viola sagittata and V. 

 fiinbriatnla. 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. C. B. Robinson, assistant curator of the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, spent the month of August in making collections in 

 Nov^a Scotia, mostly in the vicinity of Pictou and in Cape Breton. 



A recent number of Science states that Dr. F. E. Clements 

 has been promoted from the associate professorship of plant 

 physiology in the University of Nebraska to the professorship of 

 the same subject. 



Mr. T. S. Brandegee, of San Diego, California, has given his 

 herbarium and botanical library to the University of California. 

 His address is now in care of the botanical department of that 

 University at Berkeley. 



Chester A. Darling (A.M.,. Albion College, 1906) has been 

 appointed assistant in botany in Columbia University to succeed 

 Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, who has been elected to the professorship of 

 botany in the University of Utah. 



Dr. Melville Thurston Cook has resigned his position as chief 

 of the department of plant pathology of the Central Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station of Cuba. He expects to devote sev- 

 eral months to studies at the New York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. Raymond H. Pond, professor of botany in the North- 

 western University School of Pharmacy, Chicago, 111., has a 

 year's leave of absence and is now at the New York Botanical 



