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Dr. Harper also asks if any of our readers have seen this phmt 

 in the southern states. 



In our hist issue we asked if an>' of our members knew of a 

 plant called Wild Isaac. Dr. E. B. Harger, President of the 

 Connecticut Botanical Society writes as follows: "When I was 

 a boy about 1880 this name was commonly applied in this region 

 to the species of Pycnanthemum, but I do not remember that 

 they were distinguished as broad or narrow leaved. I remember 

 a discussion as to whether the name was "Wild Isaac" or "Wild 

 (H)yssop" and that my grandfather cited the case of Isaac 

 Chatfield, who was noisy and demonstrative and his demure 

 wife Sarah, and were known as Wild Isaac and Tame Sary." 



The 1937 prize of the American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science was awarded at the December meeting 

 in Indianapolis to Dr. Philip R. White of the Rockefeller In- 

 stitute for Medical Research, Princeton, N. J., for his paper 

 "Root Pressure — an Unappreciated Force in Sap Movement," 

 presented before the Physiological Section of the Botanical 

 vSociety of America on December 28. It is interesting to recall 

 that the prizes for 1935 and 1936 were also awarded for work 

 on plants, — that of 1935 to Drs. Zimmerman and Hitchcock 

 for their paper on Plant Hormones and that of 1936 to Dr. 

 Stanley for his paper on the crystallin protein possessing the 

 properties of tobacco mosaic. 



On the 25th of January the Japanese Shinto Shrine in the 

 Japanese Garden of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was de- 

 stroyed by fire. Some months before a fire had been started in 

 the shrine, but was discovered and extinguished before it had 

 done much damage. The Fire Department considered the fire 

 accidental; Dr. Gager, director of the garden said, "There is 

 no room for doubt that this was an anti-Japanese demonstra- 

 tion, and the only result of it is to put the museum to consider- 

 able expense and to deprive .the city of a unique work." The 

 shrine was built in 1914 by Japanese workmen using Japanese 

 tools, and was of California redwood, held together with w-ooden 

 pegs. 



The annual report of the New York Botanical Garden states 

 that 31 botanists from other cities and countries have engaged 



