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Southern Appalachian Botanical Club. Dr. H. L. Blomquist, 

 of the department of botany of Duke University, was elected presi- 

 dent ; Wilbert Frye, of Pleasant Dale, W. Va., vice-president ; 

 Dr. Rogers McVaugh, the National Arboretum, Washington, 

 secretary ; and Dr. Nelle Amnions, department of botany. West 

 Virginia University, treasurer. The Club publishes Castanea, 

 edited by Dr. Earl L. Core, West Virginia University. 



Prof. Harley H. Bartlett, chairman of the department of botany 

 of the University of North Carolina, has been granted leave of 

 absence from June to late September to assist in a study of malaria 

 at the Gorgas Memorial Hospital in Panama. 



Dr. Rodney H. True, professor emeritus of botany of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, died in Philadelphia on April 8. He 

 was seventy-three years old. He was a graduate of the University 

 of Wisconsin, received the degree of Ph.D. from Leipzig Univer- 

 sity in 1895. He was professor of botany at the University of 

 Wisconsin till 1900, plant physiologist in the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture from 1901 to 1920, professor of botany at the 

 University of Pennsylvania from 1920 till his retirement as pro- 

 fessor emeritus in 1937. 



Garden Book Prize. The Macmillan Company offer a prize 

 of $1,000 for the best garden book manuscript by an author who 

 has not published a garden book previously. The competition 

 closes November 30, 1940. Conditions of the contest can be 

 secured from Prize Garden Book Competition, The Macmillan 

 Company, 60 Fifth Ave., New York. 



Huntington College Botanical Garden. The annual report of 

 the garden lists 643 labeled species of trees, shrubs and herbaceous 

 plants growing in the garden. Since the garden was established 

 four years ago the number of plants, practically all natives of 

 Indiana and adjacent states, has steadily increased. Of special 

 interest in the report are the notes on the behavior of twenty-six 

 plants moved to habitats entirely different from the original ones, 

 that have survived for at least three or four years. Among these 

 are the following plants taken from swamps or bogs and planted in 

 comparatively dry upland soil : Cicuta maculata, Acorus Calamus, 

 Shim cicutijoUmn, Polygonum Muhlenhergii, Sauriis cernuus, 



