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From the Denison (Texas) Weekly Herald, we learn of the 

 death on January 21 of Thomas V. Munson, a nurseryman who 

 conducted valuable experiments on the breeding of fruits. 

 Dr. Munson was a member of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, American Breeders' Association, and 

 many other societies. 



At the organization of the New York State Forestry Asso- 

 ciation completed at a convention held at Syracuse on January 16, 

 Dr. N. L. Britton was elected first president of the society. 

 , Dr. Edward A. Burt, professor of natural history (botany) in 

 Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., has been appointed 

 librarian and mycologist of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 

 St. Louis, Mo. He will leave Middlebury at the close of the 

 present college year and begin his work at the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden in September. 



The New York Botanical Garden has secured the C. F. Cox 

 collection of Darwiniana, perhaps the most complete in this 

 country. The catalog of the collection, as published in the 

 Journal of the Garden for January, comprises 236 numbers. 

 It includes first editions of practically all Darwin's works, 

 manuscript notes, presentation copies and many other valuable 

 features. 



According to the Evening Post, Dr. G. M. Reed, of the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, will give three courses in botany at the 

 coming summer school of New York University. 



Dr. Theo. Holm has recently examined all the collections being 

 used as a basis for the species of Dicaeoma inhabiting Carex, as 

 they are to appear in the North American Flora. There were 

 altogether 1050 packets. Dr. Holm verified a large number of 

 names where the hosts showed suitable fruiting parts, changed 

 a few names, and supplied 34 new determinations. The manu- 

 script as it now stands recognizes 24 species of Dicaeoma {Puc- 

 cinia) on Carex, but a number of these species are represented 

 by only a few collections or by a single one. Collections of 

 rusted Carex bearing suitable data, and especially when accom- 

 panied by mature inflorescence of the host, will be welcomed for 

 this study, and may be sent to Dr. J. C. Arthur, Lafayette, Ind. 



