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elevations and ocean depths, and nineteen plates complete the 

 volume. 



This paper is characteristic of the usual good typography and 

 uniform quality of paper of the publications of the California 

 Academy of Sciences, 



E. L. Morris 



NOTES AND NEWS ITEMS 



We learn from the Review of Reviews of the appointment of 

 Professor F. P. Daniels as a travelling fellow on the Kahn Founda- 

 tion. The itinerary of each fellow is expected to include Europe, 

 Egypt, Japan, India and other Oriental countries and to take 

 at least a year. Professor Daniels, now professor of romance 

 languages in Wabash College, has done considerable botanical 

 work in the middle west. 



The death of Dr. Raymond Haines Pond is recorded as having 

 occurred by his own hand, at College Station, Texas, on July 25. 

 Dr. Pond received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of 

 Michigan in 1902. From 1903 to 1907, he was professor of 

 botany and pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy of North- 

 western University; in i908-'09 he held the position of biologist 

 of the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission of New York City; 

 and since 1909 he had been plant pathologist at the Texas Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. A considerable part of the time 

 between 1905 and 1908 was spent by him in carrying on re- 

 searches in physiological botany at the New York Botanical 

 Garden and at the universities of Bonn and Strassburg, and he 

 had made several contributions to the literature of this depart- 

 ment of botany. Dr. Pond was for a time a member of the 

 Torrey Club. 



In the recently issued annual report of the New York State 

 Botanist is recorded the spread of the chestnut disease to Marl- 

 borough, Ulster Co., which, "with one exception is the most 

 northern station for it in this State." The report summarizes 

 the work of the past year, and includes among other things a list 

 of about 80 plants new to the State herbarium, most of which 

 are fungi. A brief account is also given of the changes going 



