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e Executive Committee of the New York State Forestry 
Association, recently organized at Syracuse, held its first meeting 
at the New York Botanical Garden on March 15 
Dr. William Trelease spent a week at the Carden early in 
March studying the collections of Quercus. He was in Europe 
most of the winter, visiting various important pened 
Dr. E. P. Felt, state entomologist, spent March 7 at the Garden 
investigating the hemlock bark beetle ae a destructive cactus 
insect which he recently described. Dur the same week, 
inspectors from Albany ex: ae the ee ee in the Garden 
with reference to the control of the hickory bark beetle. 
e annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America 
a in paar during the Christmas holidays, Dr. Marshall 
. Howe, curator, New York Botanical — was elected 
vice- noe ie of the Society for 1913. Dr. r Hollick, 
curator, New York Botanical Garden, was ae treasurer of 
the Society, an office that he has held continuously since the 
organization of the original society in 1894 with the exception of 
a few months at the beginning when the secretary of the Society 
acted as its treasurer. Dr. Robert A. Harper, Torrey Professor 
of Botany in Columbia ides waa is one of the councilors of the 
Society for 1913. Among the new members elected at the Cleve- 
land meeting were Dr. a B. Stout, director of the laboratories, 
ew York Botanical Garden, and Mr. Norman Taylor, curator, 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The next meeting of the Society 
will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, in December of the present year. 
r. E. G. Arzberger, formerly on the botanical staff at the 
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, spent several days at the 
New York Botanical Garden during March. 
H. Love, of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion, and Dr. George H. Shull, of the Station for Experimental 
Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, have been recent visitors at 
the Garden 
