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Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Clements have finish(;fl work on the 

 Nebraska Bad Lands at Crawford, Harrison and Agate, and 

 left on June 28 for an eight- or ten-day auto trip to the Big 

 Bad Lands of South Dakota and the Little Missouri Bad Lands 

 of North Dakota. From these they go to the Alpine Laboratory 

 at Minnehaha on Pikes Peak for a month's work, chiefly on 

 photometry. They expect to attend the San Diego meeting of 

 the Pacific coast branch, where Professor Clements will give an 

 illustrated paper on "Succession in the Bad Lands." On their 

 return, they will spend a month or more in the Triassic and 

 Cretaceous Bad Lands of Arizona and New Mexico. 



At Cornell University, Dr. Lewis Knudson has been promoted 

 from assistant professor to professor of botany. 



The Royal Society of Edinburgh at its meeting of July 3, 

 elected Professor D. H. Campbell and Professor Eugene Warming 

 as fellows. 



Professor B. E. Livingston and Dr. H. E. Pulling, of the 

 laboratory of plant physiology of the Johns Hopkins University, 

 will spend the months of August and September in the region of 

 Fort Churchill and Port Nelson, Hudson Bay. They will carry 

 out field studies of vegetation as related to soil and climate. 



Miss Alice Eastwood, curator of the botanical department of 

 the California Academy of Sciences, spent five days, from June 

 15 to 20, collecting at the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. The 

 Hermit Trail was traveled to the bottom of the canyon, and the 

 Grand View or Berry Trail for about two miles down. The 

 Bright Angel Trail had been explored previously b\' Miss East- 

 wood. About 270 species were collected. 



The Stanford Arboretum, comprising approximately^ 200 acres, 

 and established by Senator Stanford in 1882, has been placed 

 under the control of the department of botany with a view of 

 more fully utilizing it for scientific purposes. An annual appro- 



