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Dr. Marie C. Stopes, lecturer on paleobotany in the University 

 of Manchester, and Dr. R. R. Gates, of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, were married on March i8 in Montreal. 



The biological laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, are 

 offering the usual number of courses in botany and related sub- 

 jects for the coming summer session. 



At a meeting of the section of biology of the New York Acad- 

 emy of Sciences Prof. C. Stuart Gager recently exhibited photo- 

 graphs of an abnormal plant of Onagra biennis that appeared in a 

 pedigreed culture, following exposure to radium rays of the 

 ovule employed in producing the plant. The plant possessed 

 two primary shoot-systems (rosettes and subsequent cauline 

 stems) of equivalent value, but manifesting entirely unlike mor- 

 phological characters. That the effect was due to the exposure 

 to radium rays was held to be possible, though not conclusively 

 shown. The antecedent history of the plant, and the fact that 

 hybrids between the two unlike halves manifested the characters 

 of only one of the parent shoots, was interpreted to emphasize 

 the fact, already recognized, that the inheritance of a character 

 and its expression are tAVO quite different phenomena. This 

 paper will appear in full in a forthcoming number of the Bulletin. 



Dr. R. M. Harper, whose monograph on the peat formations 

 of Florida l],as lately appeared, spent several weeks consulting 

 the collections at the New York Botanical Garden. His present 

 address is University, Alabama. 



A meeting of men interested in the advancement of biological 

 teaching in secondary schools was held at the Harvard Union, 

 Cambridge, February 4. The relation of school biology to civics, 

 the sequence of laboratory experiments, outdoor work with 

 classes, and college requirements were the topics informally 

 discussed. Those present were Professor G. H. Parker (Harvard 

 University), Principal Irving O. Palmer (Newton Technical 

 High School), Dr. H. R. Linville (Jamaica High School), R. H. 

 Howe, Jr. (Middlesex School), Samuel F. Tower (Boston English 

 High School), S. Warren Sturgis (Groton School), Head Master 

 Frank E. Lane and W. L. W. Field (Milton Academy, Milton, 



