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Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, N. Y. On 
Wednesday evening at 8:30 p.m., the director presided at a public 
meeting, held at the American Museum of Natural History, in 
Manhattan, when Dr. William J. Robbins, director of the New 
York Botanical Garden, gave a popular address on the subject, 
“Plants need Vitamins, too.” 
The morning and afternoon sessions of Thursday, June 25, were 
held at the Brooklyn Garden, with programs as follows : 
10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. 
“The History of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.” Dr. Gager. 
1. “Genetics, the Unifying Science in Biology.” Dr. George H. 
Shull, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. 
2. “A Consideration of Criteria of Center of Origin.” Dr. 
Stanley Cain, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.. 
3. “The Status of Plant Pathology in 1876 and in 1942.” Dr. 
George M. Reed, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
4. “Technical Applications of Genetics in Plant Breeding in 75 
Years.” Dr. A. F. Blakeslee, Carnegie Institution of Wash- 
ington, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. 
12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Luncheon. Brooklyn Museum. 50 cents. 
Inspection tours of Botanic Garden and laboratories, conducted 
by members of the Staff. 
The following members of staff were appointed official delegates 
to the celebration: Ralph H. Cheney, representing the Botany 
Department of Long Island University; C. Stuart Gager, repre- 
senting the New York Academy of Sciences; Arthur Harmount 
Graves, representing the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Long Island University 
Dr. Ralph H. Cheney, professor of biology at Long Island Uni- 
versity, has continued for his twelfth year as Resident Investigator 
at the Garden with special reference to economic plants. Dr. 
Cheney gave one of the five lectures (on Herb Teas) in Course 
V3, “Herbs: Their cultivation and uses.” 
International Flower Show 
The Garden’s exhibit at the annual International Flower Show, 
at the Grand Central Palace, March 16-21, was a demonstration 
