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NEWS NOTES 



The centennary of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew occurred 

 April 1. Previous to 1841 the gardens had been the private 

 property of the royal family. Sir Arthur Hill, the present director, 

 gave an account of the gardens activities during the century of 

 progress before the Linnean Society. 



In the October issue of the Bryologist, the journal of the Sulli- 

 vant Moss Society, is a special check list of the mosses of North 

 America north of Mexico by Dr. A. J. Grout. Dr. Andrews has a 

 list of the North American Species of Sphagnum, and Dr. Evans 

 gives a check list of the Hepaticae in the United States, Canada 

 and Arctic America. 



Dr. C. EL Goulden, senior agricultural scientist, of the 

 Dominion Rust Research Laboratory, Winnipeg, gave the tenth 

 Erank Azor Spragg Memorial Lecture during Eebruary at the 

 Michigan State College. He lectured on "The Eundamentals of 

 Experimentation." 



Dr. William J. Robbins has been named chairman of the Na- 

 tional Science Eund which was organized as a foundation to receive 

 and adminster gifts for the advancement of science. The founda- 

 tion was set up in April by the National Academy of Sciences. 

 Under the direction of Dr. A. E. Blakeslee a committee had made 

 a thorough study for the need of such a body to assist and give finan- 

 cial support for research. The first board of directors consists of 

 twelve distinguished laymen and twenty scientists from the National 

 Academy. 



Over forty students of the Jewish Hospital School of Nursing 

 completed their spring course of instruction at the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden. The course consisted of a study of more than fifty medici- 

 nal plants as they are growing on the grounds of the Garden and in 

 the conservatories, as well as attendance at lectures and demonstra- 

 tions of economic plants, the care of cut flowers, and a laboratory 

 study of plant tissues and functions. 



At the annual Commencement of Swarthmore College announce- 

 ment was made of the Award of the Arthur Hoyt Scott Garden 

 and Horticultural Award, including a Gold Medal and a $1,000.00 

 Cash Prize, to Dr. C. Stuart Gager, Director of the Brooklyn 



