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Purdy is a graduate of Barnard (1918) and has been an assistant 
she held an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowship at 
the University of Copenhagen. 
beginning of the treatment of the Hepaticae was made in 
Volume 14, Part 1, of the North American Flora, which appeared 
aa Corsiniaceae, Targioniaceae, Sauteriaceae, eae and 
rchantiaceae, by Alexander William Eva Part 3 of 
Via 24, continuing the family Fabaceae of ae ‘onder Rosales 
and written by Per Axel Rydberg, was published Pipi 
The 1923 dahlia border was planted June ade It 
consists at the date of writing ae 8) of 854 ae nae 
ing 448 varieties. Eight weeks of very dry weather followed the 
planting: quite Bie sates of what happened in 1922. Attacks 
of th t (Papat i 
Ata Hott meeting of the Torrey Bownical Club, the ‘New 
pointed t 
preservation of the native flora in the state of New York. Dr. 
Ralph C. Benedict, resident investigator ae ere 
Botanic Garden, who had addressed the me n ‘'Gam 
Laws for Ferns and = Flowers,’’ was made ‘hoirman of ah 
committee. Other members are Dr. Homer D. House, State 
Ha ae the Wild Flower Preservation “Societ ty; 
isher of the American Museum of Natural 
nie representing the New York Bird and Tree Club; Dr. 
