272, 
Prof. Hugo de Vries spent two days at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 
on his way to the type station of Oenothera grandiflora. At 
Mobile, Prof. de Vries met Prof. Tracy and they went тоо miles 
up the Alabama River to the station of the evening primrose. 
Mr. H. H. Bartlett accompanied Prof. de Vries while the trip 
led through Alabama. Early in October Prof. de Vries left with 
Prof. Tracy for Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. 
Dr. R. C. Benedict has been appointed an assistant teacher in 
the department of biology at the High School of Commerce, 
City of New York. The appointment took effect October first. 
To the list of institutions, quoted on page 173 of TORREYA, as 
possessing the Flora brasiliensis should be added the Peabody 
Library and the library of Captain John Donnell Smith, both at 
Baltimore. The latter was given to the Smithsonian Institution 
some time ago, but has not yet been moved. 
Professor Thomas H. Macbride, head of the department of 
botany in the State University of Iowa, is on leave of absence for 
the present year. He has been spending some time at Olga, 
Washington, on Orcas Island, one of the San Juan group. He 
and his family will live in Seattle until March or April. 
Dr. Hally M. D. Jolivette, formerly instructor in botany in 
Leland Stanford University, has been appointed instructor in 
botany in the State College of Washington. 
Professor R. Kent Beattie, formerly head of the department 
of botany in the State College of Washington, has resigned to 
accept a position in the Division of Plant Pathology, Bureau of 
Plant Industry. 
Dr. W. J. G. Land, of the University of Chicago, sailed from 
San Francisco on Aug. 27, for Samoa, where he will collect 
liverworts and mosses. He will also visit the Sandwich Islands, 
Fiji Islands, New Zealand and Australia. 
Mr. W. F. Wight, of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, who has recently spent four months studying plants in 
European herbaria sailed from London on August 16, for Argen- 
tine Republic where he will spend six months organizing а 
Division of Seed and Plant Introduction under the Argentine 
