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the conditions of the award of the prize will be furnished by the 

 Secretary, Mrs. A. D. Mead, 283 Wayland Avenue, Providence, 

 R. I. 



At the New York Botanical Garden, Dr. Arthur Hollick has 

 gone to Washington on a six month's leave of absence to study 

 Alaskan fossils, and Dr. J. A. Shafer and Mr. Percy Wilson have 

 gone to eastern and western Cuba respectively to continue the 

 botanical exploration of that island. Volume 6, no. 22, of the 

 Bulletin, containing descriptions of many new Bolivian plants 

 by Dr. H. H. Rusby, was issued 30 of November. Volume 3, 

 part I of North American Flora appeared 29 of December. It 

 contains the order by Hypocreales. 



The college entrance examination board at its recent meeting 

 appointed the following to prepare examination questions in 

 botany for 191 1. W. W. Rowlee, Cornell, chief examiner, M. E. 

 Kennedy, Mount Holyoke, and Louis Murbach, Detroit, as- 

 sociates. 



In the recently issued second edition of "American Men of 

 Science," the editor, Prof. J. McKeen Cattell, as the result of an 

 elaborate statistical study, ranks the five leading institutions in 

 the following order of botanical eminence: Harvard, New York 

 Botanical Garden, U. S. Dept. Agriculture, Chicago University, 

 and Cornell University. 



Dr. Charles E. Bessey, professor of botany and dean at the 

 University of Nebraska, has been elected president of the 191 1 

 Meeting of the A. A. A. S. to be held at Washington, beginning 

 December 27, 191 1. 



The Botanical Society of America has elected professor W. G. 

 Farlow, of Harvard University, as its president for 191 1. 



