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Dept. Agric. (April 2); Prof. L. H. Pammel, Iowa State Col- 
lege, Ames, Iowa (May 5); and Mr. Harry A. Norton, Ayers 
Cliff, Prov, Quebec, Canada (June 3). 
Dr. Frederick Kolpin Ravn, professor at the Royal College of 
Agriculture, Copenhagen, and a recent caller at the Botanic 
Garden, died suddenly at the home of relatives in East Orange, 
. J., on May 25." 
The name of the Brighton Line elevated railroad station near 
the Garden, formerly known as Consumers Park, has been 
changed to Botanic Garden. This station, formerly a flag sta- 
tion, is now a regular stop for all trains. 
Miss Mathilde Bensaude, who was appointed laboratory as- 
sistant at the Botanic Garden on January 15, 1920, resigned on 
June 1 to return to her home in Portugal. Miss Bensaude re- 
ceived the degree of Docteur es Sciences in 1918, with Professor 
Matruchot. 
* The Seventh Annual Flower Show opened yesterday after- 
noon (March 15) in the Grand Central Palace. Promptly at 2 
o’clock Mrs. Woodrow Wilson lifted a telephone receiver in the 
White House and, by means of an electrical connection, the door 
swung open. The first to enter was a body of ex-service men, 
wounded and gassed in war, who are taking a course in gardening 
in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.” (New York World, March 
16, 1920.) 
Mr. John W, Frothingham and Mr. Frank Bailey have been 
appointed to membership on the Botanic Garden Governing 
Committee. 
Death of Saccardo.—The director of the Garden has received 
from Padua, under date of February, 1920, a notice of which 
the following is a translation: ‘‘ We regret to inform you that on 
the 12th of February last, former professor of botany in the 
Royal University of Padua, and professor emeritus in the same, 
commander of the order of SS. Maurizio e Laz caro, and of the 
Corona d’ltalia, member of numerous academies and scientific 
