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Edward A. White, professor of floriculture at Cornell Uni- 

 versity, has been awarded the gold medal of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society "for outstanding service in the field of 

 horticultural education." Professor White organized the first 

 department of horticulture in the United States at the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College in 1907. (Science) 



The new Washington Avenue gates at the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden are ready for use. The north entrance is near the Japa- 

 nese Garden, the south one near the Children's Garden. Both 

 have three gates, one for entrance, one for exit and a central 

 one for baby carriages. The entrance turnstiles have automatic 

 counting devices so that each visitor is registered. 



Dr. J.J. Thornber, professor of botany at the University of 

 Arizona, announces that the university will begin this spring 

 the cultivation of desert plants that may be of commercial 

 value. The plants to be grown include guayule and milkweeds 

 for rubber, and other plants that may be valuable for medicine 

 and fiber. It will be several years before it will be known if 

 these plants can be grown successfully. 



At the meeting of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science during Christmas week the following officers of 

 the Botanical Section (Section G) were elected: president, 

 Dr. E. N. Transeau, Ohio State University; secretary-treasurer, 

 Dr. J. T. Buchholz, University of Illinois. 



The officers of the Botanical Society of America for 1939 

 are, — president. Dr. K. M. Wiegand, Cornell University; vice- 

 president. Dr. M. L. Fernald, Gray Herbarium, Harvard Uni- 

 versity; secretary. Dr. G. S. Avery, Jr., Connecticut College; 

 treasurer. Dr. Paul Weatherwax, Indiana University. 



Work has been begun at the New York Botanical Garden 

 on the new roads that are to run on either side of the grounds. 

 When these are completed the garden will be enclosed in a 

 fence, with two gates on the south, two on the west and one on 

 the east. There will be no roads through the garden for traffic, 

 the present ones being in part, retained as service roads. A large 

 part of the northern end of the garden is being given up, includ- 

 ing the areas where the Japanese cherries and Conservatory 

 Range number 2 are located. 



