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by Professor Osmun last winter. These lectures are free to the 
public. 
A statement in Science early last summer to the effect that 
the. Flora brasiliensis was to be found only at the University of 
Illinois, Harvard, Columbia and the Missouri Botanical Garden 
has been widely copied. Final returns indicate that this valuable 
work is also in the following libraries: Parke Davis & Co., at 
Detroit, Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, Ohio 
State University, Peabody Library and the library of Captain 
John Donnell Smith both at Baltimore, and at the Library of 
Congress. 
_ The University of Florida and the Florida Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station were honored by a visit from Prof. Hugo de Vries 
in October. After spending a week at this institution he left for 
a visit to the Keys along the Over Sea Railroad between Miami 
and Key West. During his Florida exploration Professor de 
Vries was accompanied by Dr. J. K. Small, of the New York 
Botanical Garden and Dr. P. H. Rolfs. 
Dr. H. S. Reed, of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, will sail 
for Italy early in January. He will spend some time at the 
Zoólogical Station in Naples and carry on some work in one of 
the German universities during the summer semester. 
Dr. A. M. Ferguson, of Sherman, Texas, has a collection of 
Texas plants, in quantity, for making up into fasicles. Any one 
interested in the naming, arranging and sale of such material 
should write to him. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, accompanied by Mr. Stewardson Brown, 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, sailed 
for Bermuda on November 27 to continue their studies on 
the flora of that island. Dr. F. J. Seaver has gone with the 
party to study the fungi of the island. The expedition will 
sail for New York on December 16. 
We learn from Science (November 15) that Professor M. L. 
Fernald, of the Gray Herbarium, delivered a lecture at Chicago, 
before the Geographical Society, оп November 8 on “Тһе 
