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Dr. Cooley was honi in IvasI llartford, ( "oimcclicul , July 26, 

 1857. She was instnictor in botany in Wellcsley College frrjm 

 1883 to 1896, and associate j)rofess()r of botany in the same 

 institution from 1896 to 1903. She had pubhshed several botan- 

 ical papers, of which the principal arc "Impressions of Alaska, 

 with a list of plants collected in Alaska and Nanaimo, B. C, 

 July and August, 1891 " (1892) ; "On the reserve cellulose of the 

 seeds of Liliaceae and of some related orders" (1895) ; "Ecological 

 notes on the trees of the botanical garden at Naples" (1904); 

 "Silvicultural features of Larix americana'' (1904). Dr. Cooley 

 was a woman of ability and personal charm, and her death will 

 be mourned by a wide circle of friends. 



Mr. Frank J. Smiley, assistant in botany at Harvard Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed instructor in botany and assistant 

 curator in the Herbarium at the University of California. 



"After consultation with leading firms of drug dealers and 

 medical men, the Women's Herb-Growing Association, recently 

 formed in England, has drawn up a list of the medicinal plants 

 which it is both desirable and profitable for women to grow in 

 their gardens and allotment plots. In the old days England 

 used to grow most of its own drugs, but in recent years the 

 industry has passed largely to Germany, Austria-Hungary, and 

 the Balkans. The new association intends to prove that the 

 industry can be carried on just as well in England by women. 

 Among the plants in urgent demand are monkshood, chamomile, 

 deadly nightshade, thorn-apple, henbane, purple fox-glove, fennel , 

 opium poppy, valerian." (Evening Post, 10 February.) 



