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NEWS ITEMS 



In a recent nuniher of tlic Journal of /u-oloi>y is rccorflc-d (he 

 death of two British l)otani.sts, the first to fall in the war. They 

 are Charles Glass Playfair Laidlaw who was wounded at Riche- 

 bourg I'Avonee on April 2, 1915 and died that night in the 

 hospital, and P>nest Lee who was killed on July 10, 191 5- 



Volume six of the Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 containing most of the papers read at the twentieth anniversary 

 of the Garden a year ago, was issued August 31. It is a volume 

 of 592 pages and a copy has been sent to each contributor. 



Dr. Leopold Kny, honorary Professor on the Philosophic 

 Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelm LIniversity, and Professor in 

 the Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule in Berlin, died on June 26, 

 after a long illness. He had nearly completed his 75th year. 

 He was well known for his contributions on physiology, anatomy, 

 and intercellular protoplasm. 



"William Scrugham Lyon, formerly of New York, died on 

 July 20 at St. Paul's Hospital in Manila. Mr. Lyon served at 

 one time as head of the California State Board of Forestry, and 

 while holding this position, at the request of Prof. Asa Gray, of 

 Harvard, he made a complete and valuable collection of the flora 

 of the Catalina Islands. In 1902 he went to the Philippines for 

 the Bureau of Agriculture. In 1905, Mr. Lyon left this Bureau 

 to engage in the business of collecting and exporting orchids, in 

 which he continued until the time of his death. His gardens at 

 Balic-Balic, called the "Gardens of Nagtajan," were widely 

 known among those interested in botanical and horticultural 

 subjects." {Evening Post.) 



Dr. W. A. Murrill returned August 21 from a vacation of two 

 weeks spent in the Catskills, at Arkville, Delaware Co.. New 

 York, where he obtained about 400 numbers of fungi for the 

 New York Botanical Garden herbarium. An account of his 

 trip, with a list of the fungi collected, will appear in Mycologia. 

 Arkville is of special interest to botanists in New York City 

 because it is included in the local flora range and furnishes many 

 species found in the Adirondacks. 



