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trouble. Therefore, since answers to the questions on the return 

 card will greatly facilitate this work, we will appreciate the as- 

 sistance of postmasters in forwarding these cards to parties at 

 the post offices and rural routes, who, they think, will be in- 

 terested and will answer the questions promptly." This notice 

 has been issued by the Bureau of Entomology at Washington 

 and people interested in the question are invited to communicate 

 with that bureau. 



At a meeting of the Club held February 23, at the New York 

 Botanical Garden, the proposed amendments to the by-laws, 

 framed with the idea of creating a class of associate membership 

 open only to teachers in the secondary and high schools, and 

 students in botanic gardens and universities, were voted down. 



Professor L. R. Abrams, of Stanford University, has been 

 giving Professor Jepson's course in dendrology at the University 

 of California during the first semester. 



Dr. C. A. McLendon, field pathologist of the South Carolina 

 Experiment Station, has accepted a position as expert in cotton 

 breeding with the Georgia State Board of Entomology, Atlanta, 

 Ga. 



The twenty-ninth annual announcement of the Woods Hole 

 Marine Biological Laboratory has been issued. The chief 

 course of instruction offered for the coming semester in botany 

 is designed to give ' ' as detailed an understanding of the algae 

 as time will permit." Further information may be had from 

 Dr. G. A. Drew, Woods Hole, Mass. 



Volume one, number one of Genetics, which, as its title indicates 

 will be of chief interest to animal and plant breeders, has just 

 been issued. It is a bimonthly, issued from the Princeton 

 University Press, and is managed by an editorial board among 

 which the following botanists are noted: B. M. Davis, E. M. East, 

 R. A. Emerson and Raymond Pearl. Professor G. H. ShuU, of 

 Princeton University, is the managing editor. A very fine 

 frontispiece is a copy of an old painting of Mendel. 



