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for the fortieth parallel geological survey, under Clarence King. 
He was much interested in systematic botany, and devoted 
much of his time to collecting plants. He was recognized as an 
authority on Connecticut plants and was a co-author of Bulletin 
No. 48, Conn. State Geological and Natural History Survey, 
entitled ‘‘Additions to the Flora of Connecticut.” In addition 
to his membership in the Torrey Botanical Club he was a mem- 
ber of Skull and Bones at Yale, Phi Beta Kappa, the Connecti- 
cut Historical Society, the New England Botanical Club, and 
other scientific organizations. 
Tue Division of Geology and Geography of the National 
Research Council has issued a Report of the Committee on 
Paleobotany as an appendix of the annual report of the council. 
This report, prepared under the direction of Dr. David White, 
lists the years important discoveries and the papers published, 
with notes on the work being done by students throughout the 
country. The material of the report is arranged according to 
geological periods. Copies of the report can be secured from the 
division at Washington, D. C. 
Tue AGRICULTURAL and Mechanical College of Texas has is- 
sued Bulletin No. 5, Vol. 2 of the Fourth Series on the Paleo- 
botany of the Eocene of Texas by Dr. O. M. Ball. All the plants 
known of this period from Texas are described and many of 
them are illustrated in the nearly fifty plates. 
Tue NORTHEASTERN Forest Experiment Station, with head- 
quarters at Amherst, Mass., received an increase in appropri 
ation from Congress at the last session and is expanding its wor k 
in the study of forest planting and the growth and yield of hard- 
woods in New England and New York. In New York there are 
over 4,000,000 acres of idle land that should be replanted to 
forests and some 250,000 additional acres of sub-marginal farm 
land is being abandoned each year. In New England there are 
some 8,000,000 acres of farm land which have been abandoned 
in the past fifty years. 
