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situated at an altitude of 4,000 feet, which he found a most 

 convenient base from which to make excursions, 



"Dr. Rose also told of his trip across southern Ecuador from 

 Loja to the coast when he collected a number of very interesting 

 cactus types of which quite a number were new to science. 



"Among the plants which were especially interesting were a 

 species of Juglans similar to the black walnut of the United 

 States, several mountain species of Carica, a species of Zamia, 

 various Cinchona species, four or five species of Brugmansia, 

 some of which deserv^e cultivation as ornamentals, a striking 

 species of Gunnera, several species of Tropaeolum and various 

 species of Riibus and Berheris. He collected about two thousand 

 numbers of plants." 



Adjournment followed. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 

 NEWS ITEMS 



Oliver A. Farwell, instructor in botany in the Detroit College 

 of Pharmacy has been appointed Professor of botany and 

 phamacognosy vice Walter H. Blome, M.S., Ph.C, professor of 

 materia medica and pharmacognosy, resigned. 



Dr. B. M. Duggar, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, is 

 spending the summer at the Coastal Laboratory of the Car- 

 negie Institution, Carmel, Cal., engaged in a continuation of 

 his work on hydrogen ion concentration in plant cultures. 



