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Mass.)- The last named was authorized to communicate with 

 other teachers with a view to estabHshing a series of conferences, 

 to be held probably alternately in Boston and New York. 



Mr. J. J. Levison will deliver the fourth in a series of six 

 lectures on the Cultivation and Preservation of Trees, on April 

 20, in the Brooklyn Academy of Music Lecture Hall. The 

 special topic of the evening will be "Selection and Grouping of 

 Trees for Streets, Parks and Lawns," and it will be illustrated 

 by lantern photographs. 



The alfalfa weevil introduced into this country six or seven 

 years ago is spreading rather rapidly in the northwestern states. 

 The damage in Utah last year is estimated at half a million 

 dollars. Prevention seems impossible, owing chiefly to the adult 

 habit of hiding in hay and similar commerical articles; twenty- 

 seven were taken from the vestibule of one sleeping car at Salt 

 Lake City last summer. 



Mrs. H. L. Britton, the mother of Dr. N. L. Britton, director 

 of the New York Botanical Garden, died April 7 at Venice. 



