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leave Broad St. Station, Phila(l(li)Iiia, al 1 1.17 p. 111. fXcw Yr>rk, 

 9 p. m.), on Sunday, April 23, reaching Norfolk, Va., via Cape 

 Charles, at 9.20 a. m., on April 24. The dunes anrl stranrl at 

 Virginia Beacli will be visited on that flay. Dismal Swamp and 

 Lake Drumniond will he visited on the 25th and 26th by launch 

 from Norfolk. The party will leave Norfolk at 6 p. m., on the 

 26th, reaching Philadelphia at 5 a. m. (New York, 7.32 a. m.), 

 on Thursday, April 27. Members of the Society who are inter- 

 ested in this trip should notify Prof. J. W. Harshberger, Dept. of 

 Botany, University of Pennsylvania, at as early a date as possible. 



We learn fiom Science of the death of Prof. E. Meckel who was 

 the professor of botany in the University of Marseilles. 



The announcement for the Biological Station of the University 

 of Michigan for the coming summer has just been issued. Many 

 courses in zoology and botany are offered, among the latcer 

 being courses in field and forest botany, systematic botany, 

 ecology and plant anatomy. There will also be opportunity 

 for special and research work in botany. Further information 

 may be had from Dr. O. C. Glaser, University of Michigan, 

 Ann Arbor, Michigan. 



Dr. Homer D. House, the recently appointed state botanist of 

 New York, announces the preparation of a "Memoir of the Wild 

 Flowers of New York" in two volumes, to be illustrated with 250 

 colored plates. It is expected to illustrate over 300 species 

 comprising the better known plants of the state. The books 

 will supplement a similar publication on the "Birds of Xew 

 York State." 



A "constant reader" of Torreya, whose interests are quite 

 varied but do not include bacteriology, mycology, histology, 

 physiology, pathology, genetics, and some other laboratory 

 sciences, writes that he "is constantly receiving pamphlets on 

 these subjects from men he is not personally acquainted with; 

 and as he does not like to waste his own papers by sending them 

 to persons who would probably make no more use of them than 

 he does of theirs, he hardly knows how to reciprocate, which is 



