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estry and zoology. They are: for plant ecology, H. L. Shantz 
of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D.C.,and Norman 
Taylor of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; for forestry, George P. 
Burns of the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt., and Bar- 
rington Moore of the American Museum of Natural History, 
New York; for zoology the members have not yet been appointed. 
Memorial Fruit Trees for France -—Coodperating directly with 
the French Government, the New York Bird and Tree Club (In- 
corporated) has inaugurated a campaign for funds to replant 
destroyed orchards in the devastated regions of France. These 
will be as memorials to those who sacrificed and suffered that the 
ideals of civilization might not perish. When orchards of one 
hundred trees or more are contributed by an individual, or club, 
the fact will be communicated to the French authorities with the 
expectation of receiving and transmitting to the giver a state- 
ment of the exact location of the orchard. In this number are 
orchards to the memory of Sergeant Joyce Kilmer, Lieutenant 
Quentin Roosevelt and Lieutenant Blair Thaw, with many single 
trees to the memory of our crusaders whose deeds will blossom 
and bear fruit while men live. The Bird and Tree Club articu- 
late with “the Secretary of Liberated Regions in France” and 
the funds will be expended under the supervision of the “ Office 
of Agricultural Reconstruction” which will render a detailed 
statement to the club. 
We learn from the Naturc-Study Review that in order to make 
it possible for down-town children to cultivate larger gardens in 
the suburbs, and in order that none may be prevented from doing 
so by their inability to pay car fare, the Board of Education of 
Cincinnati has made $500 available for the purchase of car tickets 
which are to be in the hands of the garden teachers and super- 
visors at the gardens and to be given to children who must use 
the cars to reach their gardens. Two hundred and twenty-five 
children, who will each cultivate one-twentieth acre or more are 
‘in this group, representing fourteen schools. Tickets are issued 
only to children who have done satisfactory garden work for a 
specified period, and who have paid their own car fare at least 
