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present year, and was restricted to the cycad fields of western 

 Cuba, the Isle of Pines, and Florida. The chief object was the 

 collection of material of Microcycas, the range of which is a very 

 restricted one, although on the present occasion the plant was 

 located at a much lower altitude than had been previously 

 reported. A short description was furnished of the vegetation of 

 a "mogote" or limestone butte, illustrated by those which 

 occur in the vicinity of Viiiales. Among the distinctive plants 

 of these clififs is Zamia latijoliata, while the common Zamia of 

 of the siliceous hills is Z. Kicksii. Lantern slides were used to 

 illustrate the characteristic vegetation of the regions which were 

 visited. 



Arthur H. Graves, 

 Secretary. 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. James A. Paris, a member of the Club and for the past 

 three years Research Fellow at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 has been chosen by the trustees of the new Tropical Plant Re- 

 search to have general supervision of all field work on tropical 

 plant diseases, with particular reference, at present, to root rots 

 of the sugar cane. In his investigations at the Brooklyn Bo- 

 tanic Garden along the line of smut disease of cereals, Dr. Paris 

 made some valuable contributions of scientific and practical 

 significance — in particular his discovery of physiological spe- 

 cialization of cereal smuts. He was appointed last June a Na- 

 tional Research Fellow by the National Research Council to 

 continue these investigations at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 

 This position he has now resigned to take up again the work of 

 tropical diseases for which his former experience as plant path- 

 ologist at the Estacion Agronomica of the College of Agriculture. 

 Santo Domingo, renders him peculiarly well fitted. He is tem- 

 porarily located at the Harvard Laboratory, Central Soledad, 

 Cienfuegos, Cuba. The permanent location for the new trop- 

 ical field research laboratory has not yet been fixed upon. 



The Tropical Plant Research Foundation was incorporated 

 on June 6, 1924. As stated in a recent announcement, its par- 

 ticular objects and business are "to promote research for the 



