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Tea given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Hastings and Dr. and 

 Mrs. Sinnott. On Thursday afternoon, June 13, at 4.30 o'clock 55 

 members and friends of the Torrey Club were present at a tea 

 given at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to honor Mr. and Mrs. 

 G. T. Hastings and Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Sinnott. Mr. Hastings has 

 served the Club long and ably as editor of Torreya ; he and Mrs. 

 Hastings were to leave for California on July 1. Professor Sin- 

 nott, after many years in Columbia University, goes to Yale Univer- 

 sity as Chairman of the Department of Botany. An enjoyable part 

 of the entertainment was a visit to the rose garden, then in its 

 glory, to the native-flower garden, and to other places of interest, 

 conducted by members of the staff of the Botanic Garden. 



Dr. Adrian John Pieters, botanist and agronomist, died in 

 Washington on April 25, in his seventy-fourth year. He began 

 work in the Department of Agriculture in 1895, and except for a 

 few years in private industry, had served there in various capac- 

 ities since. He introduced Lespedeza as a forage crop in the 

 South and has been known in recent years as the "Father of 

 Lespedeza." He retired in 1936 at the compulsory age of seventy 

 but was considered so valuable to the department that he was 

 accorded two presidential extensions of appointment. 



The Desert Laboratory at Tucson, Ariz., founded thirty-eight 

 years ago by the Carnegie Institution of Washington for the study 

 of arid and semi-arid regions, has been turned over to the Forest 

 Service of the Department of Agriculture. The laboratory's lands 

 and equipment will be used as headquarters of the Southwestern 

 Forest and Range Experiment Station, responsible for all research 

 by the Forest Service in Arizona, New Mexico and the western 

 third of Texas. Dr. Forrest Shreve, director of the Desert Labora- 

 tory, will remain to continue some of his investigations. 



Boris A. Krukoff, who has been working on his collections of 

 South American Plants at the New York Botanical Garden, has 

 been appointed honorary curator of economic botany. Mr. Kru- 

 koff, who was educated at the Imperial University of Kazan, Russia, 

 and later received a B.S. degree at the New York State College 

 of Forestry, Syracuse University (1928), has been engaged in 



