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At the annual meeting of the Torrey Club, held January 14, 

 the following officers were elected for the year. President, E. S. 

 Burgess; Vice-Presidents, H. M. Richards and J. H. Barnhart; 

 Secretary-Treasurer , B. O. Dodge; Editor, E. L. Morris; Associate 

 Editors, Jean Broadhurst, E. D. Clark, A. W. Evans, M. A. 

 Howe, H. M. Richards, A. B. Stout, and Norman Taylor. 

 Dr. William Mansfield was reelected delegate to the council of 

 the New York Academy of Sciences. 



Hereafter manuscripts intended for publication in the Bulletin 

 should be addressed to Mr. E. L. Morris, Central Museum, 

 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y., and manuscripts intended 

 for publication in Torreya should be addressed to Norman 

 Taylor, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Mrs. Marie A. Underwood, R. D. 25, Bethel, Conn., requests 

 that anyone having books loaned by the late Professor Lucien 

 M. Underwood will kindly forward them to the Department of 

 Botany, Columbia University. 



From the Stanford Alumnus (December) we learn of a col- 

 lection of portraits of botanists, which is in the library of the 

 department of botany at Leland Stanford University. It 

 comprises pictures of Darwin and Huxley, a steel engraving of 

 Linnaeus by Clement Bernic, a stipple engraving of Tournefort 

 and J. D. Hooker. There are also portraits of Humboldt and 

 Asa Gray. 



Dr. R. C, Benedict, 2702 Bainbridge Avenue, Fordham, N. Y. 

 City, has been appointed editor of the American Fern Journal, 

 to succeed Dr. Philip Dowell. 



At the recent meeting of the American Phytopathological 

 Society at Cleveland the following officers were elected for 191 3: 



President — F. C. Stewart, New York Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Geneva, N. Y. 



Vice-president — Haven Metcall^ U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C. 



Secretary-treasurer — C. L. Shear, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C, 



Councillor — W. J. Morse, Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Orono, Me. 



