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on Plant Distribution," by Mr. Frederick V. Coville. June 3. 

 "How Plants are Distributed," by Prof. Carlton C. Curtis. 

 June 10. "The Royal Gardens at Kew, England," by Dr. 

 William A. Murrill. June 17. "Collecting in the High Moun- 

 tains of Colorado," by Mr. Fred J. Seaver. June 24. "Past 

 Climatic Conditions Indicated by Fossil Plants," by Dr. Arthur 

 Hollick. 



At an arbor day celebration in the Central Museum, Brooklyn, 

 held on April 27, more than 1,600 school children actually heard 

 and saw the exercises. I^early 2,500 more, who could not be 

 accommodated, were obliged to go home, although some of this 

 excess crowd took part in a tree-planting in the adjacent 

 Botanic Garden grounds. 



In ToRREYA for January, page 9, bottom line, the name 

 Panicum neuranthum should be Aristida stricta. 



Dr. C. B. Robinson of the Philippine Bureau of Science expects 

 to return to this country about the end of July. Dr. Robinson 

 was formerly an assistant curator at the New York Botanical 

 Garden, and has been in the Philippines for the last three years, 

 giving much of his time to fiber investigations. He is now col- 

 lecting along the Indo-China coast. 



According to the New York Evening Post a gift of $25,000 from 

 an anonymous donor makes possible the immediate construction 

 of a two-story addition to th^ Gray Herbarium building, in 

 which the botanical library will be housed. 



At the annual meeting of the Naples Table Association, held 

 at Smith College on April 30, the table for 1911-12 was awarded 

 to Miss Mary Edith Pinney, B.A. Kansas 1898, M.A. 1910. 

 Miss Pinney is now studying at Bryn Mawr for her Ph.D. degree, 

 and has just received the M. Gary Thomas European fellowship 

 for 1911-1912. 



Mr. K. F. Kellerman of the Bureau of Plant Industry sailed 

 for Europe on April 25 to study -recent progress in soil bacteri- 

 ology. He will visit Germany, Russia, France and England. 



Professor Eduard Zacharias, director of the Botanical Insti- 

 tute of Hamburg and author of numerous papers on cytology, 

 has died. 



