NOTES AND COMMENT 



President Wilson has issued a proclamation establishing three new 

 National Forests in the eastern states, as an outcome of the law passed 

 in 1911 authorizing the acquisition of lands about the headwaters of 

 the principal rivers of New England and the southern Appalachian 

 region. The White Mountain National Forest is located in Grafton, 

 Carroll, a,nd Coos counties. New Hampshire, and in Oxford County, 

 Maine. The areas which have been purchased or approved for purchase 

 aggregate 391,000 acres, lying at the headwaters of the Androscoggin, 

 Saco and Connecticut rivers. The Shenandoah National Forest is 

 situated in Rockingham, Augusta, Bath, and Highland counties, 

 Virginia, and Pendleton County, West Virginia. In this tract 165,000 

 acres have been brought under federal protection, chiefly in the drain- 

 age basin of the Shenandoah River. The Natural Bridge National 

 Forest is situated in Rockingham, Nelson, Amherst, Botetourt, and- 

 Bedford counties, Virginia, comprising 102,000 acres. This forest pro- 

 tects a portion of the headwaters of the James River, but does not in- 

 clude the Natural Bridge, which lies near its boundaries in Rockbridge 

 Coimty. These three National Forests aggregate a little more than 

 1000 square miles, and constitute a very substantial addition to the 

 protected forest areas of the country. 



Through an error in the compilation of the list of Doctorates in Bot- 

 any, published in the March issue. Harvard University was credited 

 with only the two degrees conferred at the mid-year commencement. 

 At the close of the academic year the following degrees were conferred, 

 increasing the number from two to nine. 



Ph.D. 



Frederic King Butters. Studies in the geographical relations of plants of 

 the Selkirk Mountains. 



Carl Cheswell Forsaith. A report on some Allocthonous peat deposits of 

 Florida. 



Albert Richard Carl Haas. Studies of plant metabolism in relation to hydro- 

 gen ion concentration. 



Carl Sherman Hoar. The anatomy and phylogentic position of the Betulaceae. 



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