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Professor Bruce Fink, of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 
desires to see fresh material in abundance of species of the 
Collemaceae collected in various parts of New York State. This 
group of lichens is greatly in need of careful modern taxonomic 
treatment and Professor Fink will devote much of his time to it 
during the next two years. 
We learn through the daily press that the executive committee 
of the corporation of Brown University has decided to erect a 
greenhouse adjoining Maxcy Hall, as an extension of the botanical 
laboratory. The library has received a gift of 150 volumes of 
rare botanical books, valued at $2,000, in memory of the late 
Edward P. Taft, class of '54. 
The natural history library of the University of Illinois has 
been enriched by the addition of a set of Flora Brasiliensis, in 
forty folio volumes and costing $1,500. The set is written in 
Latin and is said to be the fourth obtained by American libraries, 
others being at Harvard, Columbia and the Shaw Botanical 
Gardens. 
Dr. J. N. Rose, who has recently been appointed research 
associate in the Department of Botanical Research of the 
Carnegie Institution, sailed for Europe on April 17, where he 
goes to investigate cactus collections in the various botanical 
gardens of England, France, Italy and Germany. He will be 
away about two months. His European address will be: Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, England. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, of the New York Botanical Garden, has 
returned from explorations in eastern Cuba, with more than 
2,300 specimens, including many cacti and cycads. 
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