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Dr. Edwin Brigham Copeland, since 1909 dean of the College 
of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, Los Bafios, P. L, 
spent a day at the Garden on December 19, consulting the ferns 
in our herbarium. Dr. Copeland has resigned from his position 
in the Philippines, and will resume residence in this country. 
Doctors Gundersen, Olive, White, and Gager, of the Garden 
staff, attended the Convocation Week scientific meetings in Pitts- 
burgh, December 28, 1917—January 2, 1918. Dr. White attended 
the sessions of the American Naturalists, devoted to genetics ; 
Dr. Olive the American Phytopathological Society ; and Dr. Gun- 
derson the Botanical Society of America. Dr. Gager gave the 
vice-presidential address before Section G (Botany) of the Amer- 
ican. Association for the Advancement of Science, on “The Near 
Future of Botany in America.” ‘The meetings were permeated 
with discussions and suggestions as to how botany, already pre- 
eminently a useful science (a fact not generally understood) may 
be made still more useful, especially in connection with the pres- 
ent international crisis. A number of activities were initiated 
with this end in view. 
At the first fall meeting of the Boys Club and the Girls Club, 
October 13, 1917, a gift of twenty-five dollars was presented to 
the Botanic Garden for the purchase of a flag for the Children’s 
Gardens. The presentation was made by Harold Uhrbrock. 
Dr. Carl Skottsberg, assistant professor of botany, University 
of Upsala, and recently appointed director of the botanic garden, 
newly established at Goteborg, Sweden, visited the Garden on Oc- 
tober 20. Professor Skottsberg was en route home from a sev- 
eral months study of the plant geography of Easter Island, about 
2,000 miles west of the coast of Chile, and the Juan Fernandez 
Islands, 350-450 miles from the coast. He sailed for Sweden 
with Mrs. Skottsberg on November 20. 
In connection with the celebration of the turning on of the 
Catskill water, October 12-13, 1917, the Garden issued a special 
double number of the Leaflets (Series V, nos. 12 and 13) con- 
taining two articles; “Forest Problems of the Ashokan Water- 
