NEWS NOTES 

 Raymond H. Torrey 



A limited number of rep)rints of the article on Raymond 

 Torrey in the October, 1938, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club, bound in paper covers, complete with portrait and bibli- 

 ography, can be secured from the treasurer, Dr. Harold N. 

 Moldenke, New York Botanical Garden. The price is 25 cents 

 a copy. 



At the site of the Golden Gate International Exposition on 

 Treasure Island in San Francisco harbor, ground was broken on 

 November 26 for the Floricultural Building. The first shovelful 

 of earth was turned by Miss Alice Eastwood, curator of botany 

 in the California Academy of Science for the past forty-si.x 

 years. 



Dr. Ruth M. Addoms, assistant professor of botany at 

 Duke University, is spending part of a semester's sabbatical 

 leave in the laboratory of Professor J. H. Priestly at the Uni- 

 versity of Leeds. 



Dr. John H. Whittier has retired after serving for twenty- 

 four years in the department of botany at Chicago Teachers 

 College. His place is taken by Dr. Howard J. Dittmer, formerly 

 of the State University of Iowa. 



Dr. William D. Merrell, professor of botany since 1899 at 

 the University of Rochester, has been granted a year's leave 

 of absence. He will retire from active service and become 

 emeritus profesor in June, 1939. (Science) 



The Rancho Santa Anna Botanic Garden in Santa Anna 

 Canyon, California has one visiting day a week during the 

 spring and summer. On these days displays of wild flowers, 

 as many as two hundred at a time, properly labeled, are ar- 

 ranged in the Propagating Nursery and Administration Build- 

 ing. Mimeographed leaflets are prepared for distribution each 

 week describing one native plant and giving directions for its 

 cultivation. One object of the Botanic Garden is to increase the 

 use of native plants in gardens and parks throughout the state. 



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