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sion will have transferred to it all activities directed towards the 

 control and eradication of the "phony peach" disease, blister rust, 

 barberry, citrus canker, and Dutch elm-disease. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Assistant Director, was elected President 

 of The New York Academy of Sciences at the 116th annual meet- 

 ing of the Academy, held at the Biltmore the evening of December 

 1 8. Dr. E. D. Merrill, Director-in-Chief, was elected a Councilor. 



In the November issue of this Journal (p. 247), in the list of 

 enrolled students in the gardening courses, Mr. Thomas W. Little 

 was erroneously referred to as connected with the "Charles Mont- 

 gomery Estate." It should have been the Robert H. Montgomery 

 Estate at Cos Cob, Connecticut. 



In addition to the members of the Ninth National Shade Tree 

 Conference held at the Garden, September 7-9, 1933, the following 

 visiting botanists have enrolled in the library during the autumn: 

 Dr. Ivan M. Johnston, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Dr. Glen Gardner 

 Hahn, New Haven, Conn. ; Dr. E. H. Eames, Bridgeport. Conn. ; 

 Prof. L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Mr. Edwin B. Bartram, Bush- 

 kill, Pa.; Mr. R. Kent Beattie and Mr. Curtis May, Washington, 

 D. C; Dr. Carlos A. Marelli, La Plata, Argentina; Dr. Albert S. 

 Miiller, Vicosa, Brazil; Mr. Harvey M. Bassler, Iquitos, Peru; M. 

 Armand Renier, Brussels, Belgium; Dr. H. J. Lam, Leiden. Hol- 

 land ; and Dr. Yonosuke Okada, Sendai, Japan. 



"Still pursuing his theory that blight-resistant native American 

 chestnut trees may be developed through the encouragement of 

 sprouts that have appeared since the blight swept most of the trees 

 away. Dr. John Stuart Thomson, of 361 Bergen Avenue, Jersey 

 City, X. J., again calls for voluntary cooperation in an attempt to 

 restore this tree to its former glory. Dr. Thomson is convinced 

 that progressive immunity can be built up for the chestnut tree and 

 has conducted many experiments in support of his conviction. 

 What he wishes is to hear promptly from individuals who find nut- 

 bearing sprouts or new trees bearing burs." — [Nature Magazine 

 20:04. 1933-1 



