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The announcement is out for the Bradley Bibliography of 

 woody plants issued by the Arnold Arboretum. The work is a 

 "guide to the literature of woody plants, including books and 

 articles in the proceedings of learned societies, and in scientific 

 and popular journals, published in all languages to the end of the 

 nineteenth century." The completed work is in five volumes, 

 the first of which will appear in July, and the succeeding volumes 

 as rapidly as possible. 



Professor W. R. Dudley of Leland Stanford University died 

 June 4 at the age of 62. Professor Dudley was born at Guilford, 

 Conn . , studied at Cornell , Strasburg and Berlin, and was appointed 

 professor of botany at Stanford in 1893. He was specially 

 interested in the plants of central California in relation to dis- 

 tribution and descent, and in the forests of California. 



Professor Fernald, of the Gray Herbarium, is the leader of a 

 party consisting of Professor Wiegand, Messrs. E. B. Bartram, 

 Bayard Long, and H. T. Darlington, which is to explore the 

 northeast coast of Newfoundland. The party left Boston on 

 June 30. 



The Gray Herbarium of Harvard University is to have a new 

 two-story fireproof structure, sixty feet long and thirty wide, 

 for laboratory work. The lower floor will be devoted to syste- 

 matic and geographic botany and the upper floor will house the 

 herbarium of the New England Botanical Club. The building, 

 together with $10,000 for equipment, is the gift of Mr. G. R. 

 White, of Boston. Casimir de Candolle has presented a bust, by 

 Hugues Bovy, of his father, Alphonse de Candolle, in remern- 

 brance of the friendship between his father and Asa Gray. 



