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issued as Professional Paper No. 71 and the exact title is "Index 

 to the Stratigraphy of North America." The book, together 

 with a geologic map of the continent, is now obtainable gratis 

 from the survey. 



Dr. H. A. Gleason, of the University of Michigan, spent the 

 month of January at the New York Botanical Garden studying 

 the genus Vernonia and other subjects. 



Mr. Eugene Smith, formerly a member of the Torrey Club and 

 for some time chairman of the field committee, died in Brooklyn 

 on Christmas Day. He was fifty-two years old, and the editor 

 of the Aquarium at the time of his death. 



At the University of Minnesota Dr. F. E. Clements will 

 lecture on "Plants and the Cost of Living" on March 5, and 

 Dr. E. M. Freeman will lecture on "Sickness in Plants, — Causes 

 and Remedies," on March 12. These two lectures are part of 

 a series of 21 offered by the university upon "Modern Develop- 

 ment in Science." 



Dr. H. N. Whitford known for his work on the family Dipt- 

 erocarpaceae, which includes many of the most important timber 

 trees of the Philippine Islands, has resigned his position of as- 

 sociate professor of botany, at the University of the Philippines 

 and v/ill return to the United States. 



Dr. J. M. Coulter and Dr. N. L. Britton were among the 

 members of the council of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science appointed at the recent Cleveland 

 meeting, to serve for three years. 



At the same meeting the Botanical Society of America held a 

 symposium on "Permeability and Osmotic Pressure" and the 

 Phytopathological Society on "International Phytopathological 

 Problems." 



Dr. H. C. Cowles was elected vice-president and Dr. W. J. V. 

 Osterhout, secretary of section G, Botany, at the Cleveland 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. 



