NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Wither Stone, director emeritus of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences died on May 24 in Philadelphia 

 after a long illness. He was seventy years old. He was former 

 president of the Ornithologists Union and also of the American 

 Society of Mammalogists. He wrote Plants of Southern New 

 Jersey, chiefly a flora of the Pine Barrens, in 1912, 



Dr. Elmer D. Merrill has been appointed one of the presi- 

 dents of the section of Taxonomy and nomenclature, and 

 president of the subsection of nomenclature, of the seventh 

 International Botanical Congress to be held in Stockholm in 

 1940. Dr. Merrill was honored by being awarded the Linnaean 

 Society medal for 1939 at the annual meeting of the Linnaean 

 Society in London on May 24. He is the third American and the 

 first American botanist to receive this medal during the fifty 

 years that it has been awarded. 



At the same meeting of the Linnaean Society Professor 

 Alfred Rehder, of the Arnold Arboretum, was elected a foreign 

 member of the society. 



A NEW and practical course of nature study, for boys from 

 twelve to fifteen years of age, is being conducted this summer 

 by Mr. George F. Dillman, a well known teacher of nature 

 study, and a member of the Club for many years. Mr. Dillman's 

 course is called a "Summer of Trail Adventures," and consists 

 of camping trips along different sections of the Appalachian 

 Trail in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hamp- 

 shire, with selected farm homes as base camps. For further 

 information write to Mr. Dillman at 346 East 87th Street, 

 New York, N.Y. 



Our TREASURER, Dr. Harold N. Moldenke, is interested in 

 securing records of new introductions to the American flora and 

 of their spread to new territory. He requests members of the 

 Club to send him information concerning new plants recently 

 seen growing wild in this region. Herbarium specimens of such 

 plants will be very welcome. 



Memorial to Raymond H. Torrey. Those desiring to con- 

 tribute to the memorial described in the minutes of the meeting 

 of March 15, printed on page 89 of this issue of Torreya, 

 should send their contributions at once to Dr. Moldenke, 

 Treasurer of the Club, stating that they are for the Torrey 

 Memorial on Anthony's Nose. 



92 



