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and lecturer in tropical forest botany at the Imperial Forestry 

 Institute of Shortover Furze. From 1903 to 1913 he was govern- 

 ment agrostologist and botanist of Pretoria. He had previously 

 served on the staffs of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, of the 

 University of CaHfornia and of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Sr. J. P. Carabia of the Colegio La Sale in Havana, is spending 

 a year at the New York Botanic Garden on a Guggenheim fellow- 

 ship, working on the flora of Cuba. 



Dr. Paul C. Mangelsdorf, formerly vice-director of the Texas 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, is now professor of economic 

 botany at Harvard and assistant director of the botanical museum 

 which includes the famous collection of glass flowers. Professor 

 Oakes Ames has retired from teaching but continues as director of 

 the museum. 



Chronica Botanica, formerly published in Holland, has been 

 transferred to the New World and is now published in Waltham, 

 Mass. Published every other Monday it "gathers all scientific, 

 professional and personal news and comments which may help plant 

 scientists (now over 80,000 in about 4,000 institutions) with their 

 current work and new projects. It does not duplicate any of the 

 2,000 other plant science journals." The annual subscription, $7.50, 

 may be sent to P. O. Box 151, Waltham, Mass. 



The New England Museum of Natural History announces the 

 Walker Prizes in Natural History for 1941. Tw^o prizes, of sixty 

 and fifty dollars, will be awarded for the best original unpublished 

 essays on any subject in the field of plants useful to man. The 

 closing date for submitting essays is May 1, 1941. Further informa- 

 tion may be had from the secretary, 234 Berkeley Street, Boston, 

 Mass. 



WANTED— ToRREYA—r^^ Torrey Bulletin 



The Club has no copies of the Januar};, 1940, number of the 

 Bulletin, nor of the January-February Torreya. Several of each 

 of these are needed to complete sets. If any members of the Club 



