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The Elias J. Ditraud Herbarium and Library has been pur- 

 chased by Cornell University for its Department of Plant Path- 

 ology. The library will be incorporated in the University Library. 

 Professor Durand received the degree of doctor of science at 

 Cornell University in 1895 and was a member of the staff of the- 

 Department of Botany of the University and of the Cornell 

 Agricultural Experiment Station from 1895 to 1910; from 1910 

 to 1912 he was assistant professor of botany, and from 1912 to 

 1918 associate professor at the University of Missouri. He was 

 professor of botany at the University of Minnesota from 1918 

 until his death on Oct. 29, 1922. He was especially interested 

 in the structure and taxonomy of the discomycetous fungi. 



A Botanic Garden in Cincinnati? — The question of the estab- 

 lishment of a botanic garden in Cincinnati is being agitated. 

 The School Index, the official publication of the Cincinnati Pub- 

 lic School System, contains on page 150 of the issue for January 

 19, 1923, a note concerning this movement, containing a quota- 

 tion from the Tenth Annual Report of the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden concerning the value of botanic gardens to the communi- 

 ties in which they are located, and in a larger way to the educa- 

 tional and scientific world. 



Tree Planting Encouraged. — The American Tree Association, 

 , Washington, D. C, is offering free membership in the Associa- 

 tion to " every man, woman, or child in the United States who 

 plants a tree during 1922-1923." As the president of the Asso- 

 ciation, Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack, states it, they are "calling 

 upon the people to celebrate the centennial of Arbor Day in 1972, 

 fifty years before it happens, by planting trees now.'" The ap- 

 plication blanks contains the following quotation from Theodore 

 Roosevelt: "A people without children would face a hopeless 

 future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests 

 which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon 

 vanish, and with them all their benefits. When you help to 

 preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of 

 gfood citizens." 



