Prof. C. S. Sargent's Expedition.

Professor C. S. Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, will all from New York next Friday, in company with his son, A. R. Sargent '00, and Mr. John Muir, the distinguished naturalist of the Pacific coast, for an extended trip through Europe and northern Asia in the interest of the Arboretum. Landing at Liverpool, the party will travel through Holland, France and Germany to St. Petersburg and Moscow, and thence over the Trans-Siberian railway to Pekin, making stops at frequent intervals along the way. From Pekin they will go to Hong Kong and Java, and then returning to Hong Kong will sail for San Francisco, arriving in Boston late next autumn.

The object of the trip is to make a botanical exploration of the countries visited, especially Siberia and northern China, to collect seeds and herbarium specimens, and to arrange for the shipment to the Arboretum of native trees and shrubs.

Professor Sargent's last foreign botanical expedition was to Japan in 1892.