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Taylor, 2685 Boulevard, Jersey City, N. J. ; Mr. Arthur E. Woods, 

 Cecil Lane, West Orange, N. J. 



The resignation of Dr. Ralph R. Stewart, Gordon College, 

 Rawalpindi, India, was reported and noted with regret. 



The program consisted of vacation and collecting experiences 

 of the club members and their friends. 



After the program delightful refreshments were served by the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



Clyde Chandler 

 Recording Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been asked to send details 

 of its plans and landscaping together with information as to its 

 educational and scientific program to the Minister of Agriculture 

 of Egypt. A new botanic garden to be established in connection with 

 the King Fuad University of Cairo will be planned along the 

 lines of the Brooklyn garden. 



Mr. R. T. White, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's 

 Japanese Beetle Research Laboratories at Moorestown, N. J., has 

 announced that experiments carried on since 1934 with spore- form- 

 ing bacteria have been successful in destroying the beetles. As the 

 bacteria will exist in soil almost indefinitely and infect any beetle 

 larvae that develop there it seems' to be the most effective and 

 economical method of controlling the beetles. 



Dr. William H. Brown, an authority on tropical plants and 

 lecturer in botany at Johns Hopkins University, died in Baltimore 

 on November 9. He was fifty- five years old. In 1911 he went to 

 the Philippines as plant physiologist of the Bureau of Science. 

 He was director of the Bureau from 1924 to 1933. He was the 

 author of Vegetation of the Philippine Mountains, A Text-book of 

 General Botany, and The Plant Kingdom. 



