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tract; the other along a small ditch separating tv\-o cultivated 

 fields, but it obviously antedates the construction of the ditch. 

 Each is about thirty feet high, with widely spreading branches 

 in healthy condition, and bears a good crop of fruit. Seedlings 

 have not been seen. — H. A. Gleasox. 



NEWS ITEMS 



According to The Cambridge Tribune of June 28, Harvard 

 University benefits from the will of the late Dr. W. G. Farlow, 

 professor emeritus of cryptogamic botany. All of his books, 

 papers, manuscripts, etc., are left to the University, to constitute 

 the Farlow Reference Library. The sum of $25,000 is left in 

 trust to his assistant, A. B. Se^onour, who will enjoy its income 

 during his life. On his death this fund will be added to a gift 

 of $100,000 previously made to Harvard and knoT\Ti as the John 

 S. Farlow Memorial Fund. On the death of Professor Farlow's 

 widow, ^100,000 will be given to the University and added to 

 the John S. Farlow Memorial Fund. 



In connection with the commencement exercises of the Uni- 

 versity^ of Vermont, held in Burlington on June 25, the degree 

 of doctor of letters was conferred upon Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, 

 formerly director of the College of Agriculture of Cornell Uni- 

 versit>'-, and the honorar^^ degree of doctor of science was con- 

 ferred upon Dr. Marshall Avery Howe, curator of the museums 

 of the New York Botanical Garden. 



Dr. H. N. Whitford, of the School of Forestry of Yale Uni- 

 versity, has recently returned from Central America, where he 

 was one of a commission detailed by the State Department to 

 investigate the economic resources of the boundary region in 

 dispute between Guatemala and Honduras. 



