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cially reserved for Cryptogamic Botany, the second course on 

 Cryptogams for undergraduates (Nat. Hist. 23), in charge of 

 Professor Farlow, was conducted in the room on the fifth floor, 

 belonging to the department of Herpetology. The course was 

 taken by eight students, not counting some who attended lec- 

 tures only, and the work consisted of a study of some of the 

 lower forms of plants, with special reference to the needs of those 

 intending to study medicine. The number of graduate students 

 at work on special crpytogamic topics was seven. A paper by 

 Mr. R. P. Bigelow, " On the Structure of the Frond in Cham- 

 pia parvula, Harv.," is already in print in the Proceedings of the 

 American Academy. A paper by Mr. W. M. Woodworth on 

 the apical growth of Fucus, and one by Mr. B. L. Robinson on 

 some points in the structure and nomenclature of certain species 

 of Ascomyces, will soon appear in print. Three of the students 

 will remain at Cambridge another year, when it is expected that 

 the work on which they are now engaged will be completed. 

 Mr. J. E. Humphrey, who published last year a paper on Aga- 

 rum, and who contemplated publishing a second paper on the 

 development of some Algae, has accepted a position at the State 

 University of Indiana for the coming year. 



