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NICARAGUA. Mr. B. Barlow, a graduate of Michigan Agricul- 
tural College, and for some time "bacteriologist, of the 
Ontario, Canada, Experiment Station. He is an enthusi- 
astic collector of plants, and owing to ill health desires 
to go to Nicaragua. He proposes to study the nodule 
hearing leguminosae of the tropics, "being a specialist 
on nodule-bearing "bacteria. 
NORWAY, Roikenvik. Lars Hvinden. Moisted clover, a very old 
variety is grown in Southern Norway. A very cold-resist- 
ant strain and longer lived than American or German clo- 
ver. He will send samples of this and another variety 
from Middle Norway. The minimum temperature J :here is 
40° "below zero; commonly 4° below. Ground frozen a yard 
deep, "but generally covered with snow. 
