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which the party goes is entirely unexplored, but is said to be 

 extremely rich in its fauna and flora. 



Dr. Philip Dowell will spend July and August as assistant 

 curator at the United States National Museum, Division of 

 Plants. 



Dr. William A. Murrill is in Europe, studying types of fungi 

 and the effect of tar dust on the trees planted on roads where the 

 surface binding is of tar. 



At the Johns Hopkins University Dr. Edward W. Berry has 

 been advanced from associate to associate professor of paleo- 

 botany. Dr. D. S. Johnson has been appointed director of the 

 botanical garden, and Dr. B. E. Livingston has been appointed 

 director of the laboratory of plant physiology. 



The Geological Survey of Alabama has just issued Part I of 

 the Economic Botany of Alabama, a geographical report, includ- 

 ing descriptions of the natural divisions of the state, their forests 

 and forest industries; by Roland M. Harper, Ph.D., who has 

 been gathering the material for this report since 1905, in every 

 county in the state. It is a booklet of 228 pages, including a 

 colored map and 63 half-tone views of forest scenery and indus- 

 tries. The edition is limited to 3,000 copies, and most of these 

 will go to libraries and individuals already on their mailing list. 

 But as long as the supply lasts a copy will be sent on request to 

 any address in the United States on receipt of seven cents in 

 ordinary postage stamps (not parcel post stamps) to cover 

 postage. Applications should be addressed to Eugene A. Smith, 

 University, Ala. 



On the seventh of June the second edition of Britton and 

 Brown's "Illustrated Flora" was published by Chas. Scribner's 

 Sons, New York. A review of this work will appear in Torre ya 

 for August. 



A continuation of last year's botanical collection and study 

 will be made along the northwestern shore of Lake Superior, 

 and inland from there, during the present summer by Dr. and 

 Mrs. O. E. Jennings, of the Carnegie Museum. Operations 

 began at Fort William about June 20. 



