NEWS NOTES 



Mr. G. G. Nearing, of Ridgewood, N. J., has been awarded 

 the Jackson Dawson Memorial Medal by the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society for his work with rhododendrons. Mr. Nearing is 

 the author of several articles on lichens that have been appearing in 



TORREYA. 



Registration for adult classes in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 show a total for the year of 1,642. This is more than twice the num- 

 ber in 1939 and is the largest registration in the history of the 

 garden. 



The department of landscape architecture of Columbia Univer- 

 sity has been given Glencoe, a seven-acre estate at Irvington, N. Y., 

 by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Donaldson, of Millbrook, N. Y. This 

 estate was a part of holdings of the Alexander Hamilton family. 

 Glencoe borders upon Nevis, a sixty-eight-acre estate given to 

 Columbia in 1935. The additional grounds will be incorporated into 

 Nevis Arboretum for the use of the students in landscape design. 



Prof. E. S. Heath, of Atlanta, has been made director of the 

 new Georgia Botanical Garden which includes a tract of about 

 450 acres being developed just outside of Atlanta. A survey of the 

 species in the area is now under way. 



The two millionth specimen w^as deposited in the herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden on December 11, 1940. The 

 plant having the accidental honor of being number 2,000,000 was 

 collected by Dr. H. A. Gleason during the previous summer at 

 Russelville, Ky., and is the little known wild clematis. Clematis 

 versicolor. After a short program given by staff members the 

 incorporation of the species into the herbarium was concluded by 

 Joseph Rockwell Swan, president of the board of managers. 



Science reports that the council of the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, London, has awarded the Victoria medal of honor for 

 1940 to Major F. C. Stern. The Veitch Memorial gold medal has 

 been awarded to T. Hay, former superintendent of the royal parks, 

 and the Loder rhododendron cup to Dr. J. Hutchinson, of the 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 



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