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priation is to be made for the acquisition of specimens, that for 

 the current year being $i,ooo. 



Under the auspices of the Botanical Seminar of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College, Dr. William Crocker, of the University of 

 Chicago, gave a public address recently on the "History of Our 

 Present Knowledge of Plant Nutrition." 



At the Michigan Agricultural College, Mr. G. R. Johnstone 

 has resigned his instructorship in botany which he has held for 

 three years, in order to prosecute his studies further. The 

 vacancy has been filled by the appointment of Mr. H. C. Young, 

 who was at the Missouri Botanical Garden last year. 



Dr. Raymond J. Pool, who was recently elected head of the 

 department of botany in the University of Nebraska, has spent 

 several weeks in continuing his studies of Rocky Mountain 

 chaparral associations with headquarters at Dr. Clements' 

 cottage at Minnehaha-on-Ruxton, near Manitou, Colorado. 



