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NEWS ITEMS 



From a recent number of the Times we learn that the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries will send the steamer Albatross on a 

 scientific cruise, and by special arrangement the American 

 Museum of Natural History of New York will cooperate. The 

 Albatross will sail from San Diego, Cal. Collecting parties will 

 be landed in lower California to gather specimens of birds, 

 reptiles, mammals and of the plant life of the coast. The 

 New York Zoological Society and the New York Botanical 

 Garden will be represented in these landing parties. The Gulf 

 of California will be explored and the pearl shell fisheries 

 studied with a view to transplanting pearl shell oysters to 

 Florida waters. 



Professor V. R. Gardner has been appointed associate professor 

 of pomology at the Oregon Agricultural College to succeed Pro- 

 fessor C. A. Cole, who has resigned. 



During 1910 over three million persons visited the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew. The greatest day's attendance was 

 152,454- 



The University of Colorado Mountain Laboratory at Tolland, 

 Colorado, begins its third session June 19, 191 1. Courses in 

 systematic botany, plant ecology, algology and field biology 

 (plant and animal). The laboratory is at 8889 ft. and offers 

 varied conditions for study. Pamphlet may be obtained from 

 Dr. Francis Ramaley, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo- 

 rado. 



Recent visitors at the New York Botanical Garden include 

 Dr. Ezra Brainerd, Dr. W. C. Coker, Dr. Marie Stopes of Man- 

 chester, and Dr. C. F. Millspaugh en route to the Bahamas. 

 Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton have gone to Cuba, and Dr. Small 

 has returned from explorations in Florida. 



The board of the University of Iowa has definitely decided to 

 provide a special building for the collections of Prof. Calvin 

 and Dr. T. H. Macbride, whose work on the geology and botany 



