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Mountains and Barrens of Newfoundland and the Gaspé Pen- 
insula." 
Dr. Herbert J. Webber, of Cornell University, has returned 
from an extensive trip in the West, where he has been delivering 
lectures. He spent some time at the University of California, 
where he was offered the post of director of the citrus experiment 
station and Dean of the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture. 
He has not decided whether he will accept the position. 
On Monday, November 25, Rutgers College heard a lecture 
on the Luther Laflin Kellogg Foundation by Professor Hugo de 
Vries, director of the Hortus Botanicus at Amsterdam, Holland. 
Professor de Vries discussed “А New Conception of the Evo- 
lution Theory." Professor de Vries while making a study of the 
botany of Florida visited Crescent City where extensive citrus 
groves in full bearing were examined. In the region around 
Satsuma he visited the 700-acre camphor orchard, this being of 
special interest to him from the fact that the trees are all seed- 
lings from seed gathered in Florida. 
From Science (November 22) we learn that Doctor Jacques 
Huber, director of the Goeldi Museum of Natural History and 
of the Botanical Garden of Pará, Brazil, has been visiting the 
scientific institutions of the United States. 
Mr. Henry Groves, who with his brother, Mr. James Groves, 
is the author of important contributions to botany, died in 
London on November 2, aged fifty-seven years. 
At Cleveland, December 30-January 4, the American Associ- 
ation for the Advancement of Science will hold its annual meeting. 
Dr. C. E. Bessey, the retiring President, will introduce the Presi- 
dent of the present meeting, Dr. E. C. Pickering. The botanical 
section, G, will hear the vice-presidential address of Professor 
Newcombe оп “The scope of state natural surveys." Botanical 
societies meeting at Cleveland during the same week include, 
The Botanical Society of America, Botanists of the Central 
States, American Phytopathological Association and the Asso- 
ciation of Official Seed Analysts. 
