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The October meeting of the New York Library Club was held 
at the Garden on the afternoon of Thursday, October 9, with an 
attendance of 160. The special subject of the meeting was 
“Education Outside of Books.’ Illustrated addresses were 
delivered by Dr. N. L. Britton, on the educational work of the 
New York Botanical Garden, and by Mr. Raymond L. Ditmars, 
on the work of the Zodlogical Society and its park. 
Mr. Ernest Dunbar Clark, Ph.D., Columbia University, ’10, 
an investigator at the Garden almost continuously since 1908, 
has recently resigned the position of instructor in chemistry in 
the Cornell Medical School to accept the position of soil bio- 
chemist in the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau 
of Chemistry, Vee D.C. 
Dr. Frederick H. Blodgett, who was student and aid at the 
Garden, 1900~o1, is now plant pathologist and physiologist of 
the Texas fei Experiment Stations, with headquarters 
at College Station, Texas. 
Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, of the United States Geological 
Survey, was a visitor at the Garden September 20. The fossil 
algae obtained by Dr. Vaughan and Dr. D. F. MacDonald in 
their geological survey of the Panama Canal Zone are being 
studied by Dr. Marshall A. Howe, of the Garden staff. 
Several changes have occurred in the botanical department of 
Columbia University beginning with the present school year. 
Dr. Chester A. Darling, formerly an instructor, has resigned this 
position to become professor of biology in Allegheny College, 
Meadville, Pennsylvania, and Mr. Fred D. Fromme, an assistant, 
has accepted a position in the botanical department at Purdue 
University, Lafayette, Indiana. Recent additions ‘to the 
botanical staff at Columbia University are Mr. Allen C. Fraser, 
B Cornell '13, who was assistant in plant breeding at the 
New York Botanical Garden during the past summer, and 
Mr. F. V. Rand, M.S. University of Vermont ‘11, for the 
