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NEWS ITEMS. 
For the meaningless last paragraph on the last page of August 
TORREYA the following item should have appeared. The co- 
operation of botanists is requested in the attempt to enlarge the 
section of TorRREYA which is devoted to “News Items." This 
is the only American magazine devoted solely to botany which 
has regularly. carried a news column. It is now proposed to 
enlarge this feature of the journal, so that everything of current 
interest in the botanical world may find permanent record in 
ToRREYA. Any changes in teaching staff, additions to equip- 
ment or endowment, explorations or botanical expeditions, and 
any other items of current botanical news will be welcome. The 
advantages of originally publishing such items in a magazine 
devoted solely to the science of botany, and also the protection 
afforded American botanists from prematurely or incorrectly 
published press dispatches, are features which, it is hoped, will 
be found sufficiently attractive to ensure hearty coóperation. 
Attention is called to the fact that October first is the last day 
upon which manuscripts of the Local Flora Prize Essay will be 
received. Full details of this competition were published in 
ToRREYA for March. 
On Saturday, August 24, Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton, accom- 
panied by Mr. Stewardson Brown of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences at Philadelphia, sailed for Bermuda to continue studies 
on the flora of that island. 
Early in September Dr. C. B. Robinson, who has been working 
on the family Vacciniaceae at the New York Botanical Garden, 
will start for the Philippines, to resume work on the flora of the 
archipelago. 
Professor Hugo de Vries is to visit the United States this fall 
and will give a lecture September 12 for the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden at 8.15 P.M. at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn 
on "Plant breedong in the Botanic Garden of Amsterdam.’ 
On September 14, at 4 P.M. he will lecture at the New York 
Botanical Garden on “Experiments in Mutation.” 
