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Botanical Society of America, Dr. Neil E. Stevens, of the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois, vice-president. Dr. Paul R. Burkholcler, Buffalo 

 Museum of Science, secretary, and Dr. Paul Weatherwax, Indiana 

 University, treasurer. 



Dr. Edmund Ware Sinnott, professor of botany at Barnard 

 College has been appointed Sterling professor of botany, chair- 

 man of the department, and director of the Marsh Botanical Gardens 

 at Yale University, the appointment becoming effective on Jul}^ 1. 

 Dr. Sinnott served as president of the Torrey Club from 1930 

 through 1932. 



Dr. Elmer D. Merrill, Harvard University, has been elected 

 president of the Board of Directors of the Fairchild Tropical Garden 

 at Cocoanut Grove, Florida. Dr. Merrill was one of the speakers 

 at the dedication of the garden in March, two years ago. 



Dr. J. C. Arthur, professor emeritus of botany at Purdue Uni- 

 versity, observed his ninetieth birthday on January 11. 



Dr. Harry Milliken Jennison, since 1923 professor of botany 

 at the University of Tennessee, died on January 5 in his fifty-fifth 

 year. Dr. Jennison, whose special interest was in the taxonomy of 

 the higher plant was a member of our club. 



On September 18 the University of Minnesota Hudson Bay 

 Expedition returned. The party explored and collected in the 

 Richmond Gulf area and around the Great Whale River as well 

 as on Belcher Islands in the Bay. The collections numbered about 

 8,000 specimens of which 1,336 numbers were flowering plants 

 and 400 were of the lower plants. In addition tree borings were 

 made to get material for a study of correlation of tree growth and 

 climatic conditions. The party was in charge of Dr. Ernst C. Abbe. 



Mr. Oakes Ames, of Harvard University, has presented to the 

 University his orchid herbarium of 57,000 specimens, his library 

 of over 1,800 volumes and pamphlets about orchids, and the sum 

 of $68,000 to establish an endowed curatorship for the collection. 



One of our members. Mr. George F. Dillman, reports a suc- 

 cessful summer last year in his outdoor course of nature study for 

 boys. This summer he will have a base camp located on an old farm 

 at Otis, Mass., in one of the wildest parts of the Berkshires, from 



