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tend the packing and shipment of this important collection, re- 

 turning to New York November 29. The Mitten herbarium is 

 rich in Hepaticae as well as in Musci. 



Mayor McClellan has appointed Dr. Arthur Hollick, of the 

 New York Botanical Garden staff, a member of the Board of 

 Education of Greater New York to succeed Mr. Samuel M. Dix, 

 of the Borough of Richmond, 



A recent number of Science states that Dr. E, B. Copeland, 

 who for the past three years has been engaged in botanical and 

 educational work in the Philippine Islands, has been elected hor- 

 ticulturist of the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 

 and was expected to begin his new duties about the middle of 

 November. 



The Torrey Botanical Club will give a reception to the visiting 

 botanists of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, on the 

 evening of Wednesday, December 26. The regular meeting of 

 the Club, announced in the November Torreya for the after- 

 noon of that day, will be omitted. 



Mr. T. S. Brandegee, recently of San Diego, California, the 

 donation of whose herbarium to the University of California was 

 announced in the October Torreya, has been appointed honorary 

 curator of the herbarium of that institution. The Brandegee 

 herbarium is said to consist of over 100,000 sheets of plants, 

 mostly representative of the Mexican flora, and to include an 

 especially strong collection of the North American Boraginaceae. 



Dr. Roland M. Harper is now engaged at the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History in some special work in connection with 

 the Jesup collection of woods. His doctorate thesis, " A Phyto- 

 geographical Sketch of the Altamaha Grit Region of the Coastal 

 Plain of Georgia," which forms Part i of Vol. \J of the Annals 

 of the New York Academy of Sciences and comprises 414 pages, 

 with 28 half-tone plates and a map, was issued in November. 



