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which trips for nature study will be made in various directions. 

 For particulars address Mr. Dillman at Edgewood School, Green- 

 ich, Conn. 



A new international address book of workers in plant taxonomy, 

 geography and ecology is being prepared by the editor of Chronica 

 Botanica, Dr. Verdoon, of Leiden, Holland. Those who would like 

 their names in this book are asked to send to Dr. E. D. Merrill, 

 Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass., for a card to be filled 

 out with the requisite data. 



The Organizing Committee of the Seventh Botanical Congress 

 which was to have been held in Stockholm in 1940 has, because of 

 the present international condition, decided to postpone all prepa- 

 rations for the Congress until further notice. 



The Eighth American Scientific Congress will be held in Wash- 

 ington, D. C. from May 10 to 18, 1940. Governments of the Ameri- 

 can Republics and scientific institutions and organizations have 

 been invited to send representatives. The Congress will be divided 

 into eleven sections, Anthropology, Biology, Geology, Agriculture 

 and Conservation, Public Health, Physics and Chemistry, Statistics, 

 Geography and History, International Law, Economics and 

 Education. 



The summer meeting of the American Association of Science 

 will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle from June 

 17 to 22. The Pacific Section of the Botanical Society of America 

 will meet at the same time and place. Any member of the Botanical 

 Society of America who wishes to present a paper at this meeting 

 should send the title of the paper and an abstract of not over two 

 hundred words to Dr. Ira L. Wiggins, Stanford University, Calif., 

 not later than the first of May. 



WANTED — Due to unexpected requests for the January-Feb- 

 ruary number of Torreya (Volume 40, number 1), the treasurer 

 has no extra Copies to fill orders. Any members who have copies 

 they do not care to keep will do the Club a favor by sending the 

 copies to either the treasurer, Dr. Harold N. Moldenke, New York 

 Botanical Garden, or to the editor. If desired the Club will ])ay 

 the regular price of thirty cents each for the copies. 



