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The general theme of the book is the broad evolutionary view 

 of heredity which takes into account the origin and inheritance 

 of dissimilarity as well as of similarity. The book is clearly 

 the best popular exposition of the topics outlined in the table of 

 contents. A. B. Stout 



NEWS ITEMS 



We regret to record the death on February i of Mr. John 

 Innes Kane at his residence on West 49th Street, New York. 

 Mr. Kane was the chairman of the finance committee of the 

 Torrey Club, and he also served on the entrance committee of 

 the board of managers of the New York Botanical Garden. 

 He was widely identified ^ith various other activities in New 

 York. 



Dr. J. Arthur Harris spent January at the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden and is spending February and March at the Desert 

 Botanical Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona. 



Fifteen botanists were the guests of Prof. R. A. Harper on 

 February 16, at a dinner given by him to D. H. Fairchild and 

 W^. T. Swingle, both of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



Early in February some suffragettes of the Pankhurstian 

 persuasion succeeded in destroying a number of valuable orchids 

 at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. On February 20 these 

 franchise enthusiasts successfully obliterated a pavilion at the 

 gardens. The authorities have seriously considered closing the 

 gardens to the public for a short period. 



We learn from the daily papers of the sale, by the Trustees 

 of Columbia University, of the northwest corner of Forty-seventh 

 Street and Fifth Avenue, for the sum of three million dollars. 

 Over a century ago the corner formed a small portion of the large 

 Elgin Botanic Gardens, which Dr. David Hosack, whose name 

 is so intimately associated with medical progress in America, 

 purchased from the city for $4,807.36. There were about twenty 

 acres in the garden, the first to be started in New York, embracing 

 all of the four blocks from the north side of Forty-seventh Street 



