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ber of the Torrey Club for many years, was the country's foremost 

 authority on sedges. When he died in 1934 he left the Garden 

 his herbarium of some 40,000 sheets, and the drawings and manu- 

 script for this work which has been edited by Dr. H. W. Rickett. 

 The two volumes are sold at cost price, $15.50 unbound and $17.50 

 in library buckram. 



Fossil Plants. At Princeton University a card catalogue with 

 illustrations of all described plant species of the Mesozoic and 

 paleocene of North America has been compiled under the direction 

 of Dr. Erling Dorf (who led the field trip of the Club reported on 

 page 90 of this issue). With the catalogue is an artificial key to 

 groups and genera. The catalogue may be consulted in the depart- 

 ment of geology at Princeton. 



The Pacific Division of the Botanical Society of America will 

 meet with the A. A. A. S. at the summer meeting in Seattle, Wash- 

 ington, from June 17 to 22. There will be symposia on Aquatic 

 Botany and on Recent Investigations of the Characteristics of the 

 Photosynthetic Process as well as sessions for the reading of other 

 papers. 



At the 8th American Science Congress held in Washington, 

 D. C, from May 10 to 20 papers were presented by a number of 

 the members of the Torrey Club, among them Dr. Albert F. 

 Blakeslee, Dr. Bernard O. Dodge, Dr. Wendell H. Camp, Dr. 

 Albert C. Smith, Dr. William J. Robbins and Dr. Henry K. 

 Svenson. 



W.P.A. exhibit. During the week of May 20-25 the Profes- 

 sional and Service personnel of the Work Project Administration 

 held an exhibit in the museum building of the New York Botanic 

 Garden, of the work being done there. The exhibit included paint- 

 ings of varieties of seedless grapes, hybrids of day lilies, and 

 insect and fungus pests ; specimens showing the steps followed in 

 mounting over 200,000 herbarium sheets ; volumes of prints and 

 the card catalogue indexing the photographic collections of the 

 Garden ; and other types of work. At present 75 workers make 

 up the personnel of the project. 



