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stone House, Norton, Conn.; Mrs. Anne M. Schaefer, 74 Fairview 

 Ave.. Jersey City, N. J.; Prof. William-Henri Schopfer, Botanical 

 Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland ; Dr. Alfred 

 Ursprung, Institute Botanique de I'Universite, Frilx»urg, Switzer- 

 land. 



Associate: Miss Bessie Lumnitz, George Washington High 

 School, Isham Annex. 212th St. and Broadway, New York; Mr. 

 Erich W. Peters, 63-01 Dry Harhor Rd., Elmhurst, Long Island, 

 N. Y. ; and Dr. C. D. Sherbakoff, University of Tennessee Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Knoxville, Tenn. Miss Clara Burg- 

 hart, 419 Devon St., Kearney, N. J., was transferred from annual 

 to associate. 



The program for the evening was an illustrated talk by Mr. 

 Rutherford Piatt on "Magnified Color Photography in Nature." 

 With a very beautiful series of kodachrome slides Mr. Piatt 

 started in at Charleston, S. C, showing blossoming plants of 

 Sarraccnia flava and 5^. rubra and the Venus Fly-trap, Dionca. In 

 the latter details were shown of the leaves with the reddish inner 

 surfaces which help in attracting insects. Then views were shown in 

 the Pine Barrens in early spring and in the immediate vicinity of 

 New York in winter. Magnified views of winter buds and their 

 internal structure, of catkins of alder, birch and hazelnut, of winter 

 weeds, of lichens and of the bark of trees showed how much color 

 was to be found during the winter if one looks for it. 



After the talk questions were asked as to the methods used in 

 taking the pictures and the equipment necessary. 



The meeting adjourned at nine-thirty. 



George T. Hastings 

 Acting Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Marcus M. Rhoades, geneticist of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, has 1)een appointed associate professor of botany at 

 Columbia University. Dr. Rhoades will cooperate with Dr. Th. 

 Dobzhansky, who has been appointed professor of zoology, in direct- 

 ing work in the laboratory of genetics, established two years ago 

 to unite the work in botany and zoology of the University. 



