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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Curator, has saa elected to member- 
as in the National eae my of Scien 
. B. Stout, Director of the ee spent two weeks 
een in July and a in ee ust in northern Maine, continuing 
researches on seed sterility and fertility in potatoes, in cooper- 
ation with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the U.S. Department 
of Agriculture 
r. W. A. Murrill visited four Girl Scout camps in Interstate 
k on July 30 and oe and made two addresses on scouting and 
am pied b ron. 
d the flowe 
Herbaceous Valley to the Rock Garden, ae s Garden, a 
plantation and See Range 2. Some even got as far 
as the Rose 
The library io herbarium of the late aay a : Du rand 
Miss Helen A. Purdy, who has been for more than a year an 
assistant fe Dr. ia A. Murnill, eee of Public In- 
struction shop Museum Fellow 
and will sail in September for the sae Islands, where she 
will devote the coming year to studies of the Hawaiian fungi 
with special attention to those causing plant diseases. Miss 
