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Professor Alfred Rehder, author of the Manual of Cultivated 

 Trees and Shrubs, curator of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard 

 University, celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday on September 

 4. A dinner was given in his honor by the staff of the Arboretum. 

 During the dinner he was presented with a substantial purse. 



A new plan for the publication of Biological Abstracts has 

 been adopted by the Board of Trustees. Beginning with 1939 

 the monthly issues covering the literature of all the life sciences 

 will be continued at a uniform price of S25 to libraries and in- 

 dividual subscribers alike. In addition the following specialized 

 sections of each issue will be published: General Biology, S4; 

 E.xperimental Animal Biology, S9; Microbiology and Parasitol- 

 ogy, $5; Plant Sciences, S6; Animal Sciences, S6; The section 

 on Plant Sciences will include Phytopathology, Plant Physiol- 

 ogy, Plant Anatomy, Paleobotany, Systematic Botany, Agron- 

 omy, Horticulture, Forestry, Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceuti- 

 cal Botany. The prices given are for the United States. Sub- 

 scribers to any of the parts will receive indexes to the whole 

 Biological Abstracts. 



The hurricane of September 21 destroyed about half the 

 trees of southern New England. Representing New England's 

 forest interests, Ward Shepard, director of Harvard Forest, has 

 been in consultation with the U. S. Forest Service, the Civilian 

 Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration and 

 other government agencies in regard to removing the fire hazard 

 due to the fallen trees, salvaging all that can be made use of, 

 and the rebuilding of the forests and wood lots. The hurricane 

 showed that mixed forests withstood better than forests uni- 

 form as to species and age, so new plantings will attempt to be 

 naturalistic with various species. Dr. Elmer D. Merrill, of 

 Harvard, states that the Arnold Arboretum lost some 1,500 

 trees, including some of the oldest and largest trees in the ar- 

 boretum, as well as some of the rarest ones. 



Dr. T. H. Goodspeed, of the University of California, is 

 leading an expedition to the southern Andes to collect relatives 

 of the tobacco plant and other forms. Working southward from 

 Buenos Aires the party will go through the Patagonian pampas 

 to Tierra Del Fuego, then through the Straits of Magellan and 

 north to the Chilean Lakes region. 



