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Mr. Montague Free, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, has 

 been elected president of newly-formed American Rock Garden 

 Association. 



Dr. Elton H. Eaton died in Geneva, N. Y. on March 27th 

 in his sixty-seventh year. Dr. Eaton was best known as an 

 ornithologist, but he was also an authority on local botany. He 

 was the author of the two volumes "Birds of New York" and 

 of the "Biological Survey of the Finger Lakes." 



Mr. B. A. Krukoff has returned from his fourth expedition 

 into Brazilian Amazonia with about 17,000 herbarium speci- 

 mens and a very large collection of Brazilian woods. The botani- 

 cal specimens are now being prepared at the New York Botani- 

 cal Garden for distribution to the leading botanical institutions 

 of the world, while the wood specimens will be studied at the 

 New York State College of Forestry and duplicate material 

 distributed from there. Mr. Krukoff travelled during this expe- 

 dition into parts of South America which have not been hitherto 

 explored by a botanist and have rarely been visited by white 

 men. 



Ascending the Jurua River almost to the Peruvian boundary, 

 he turned south up one of its tributaries and collected many 

 specimens near the mouth of the Embira. From this point he 

 continued overland farther south across a plateau to a tribu- 

 tary of the Purus River where other large collections were made. 

 Thence he descended the Purus River to the mouth of the Ituxi 

 River, ascended it south to its source and again travelled over- 

 land to a tributary of the Madeira. His trip home followed the 

 familiar route down the Madeira and the Amazon to Para. 



While the scientific study of the botanical specimens has 

 not yet begun, preliminary examination indicates that the 

 collection contains numerous species of great botanical interest. 



A magnificent collection of botanical material from British 

 New Guinea with ample field notes and many duplicates has 

 just been received at the New York Botanical Garden. The 

 specimens were prepared by Mr. L. J. Brass, botanist with the 

 Richard Archbold ornithological expedition of The American 

 Museum of Natural History, in 1933. There are about 2,100 

 numbers in the series which forms one of the largest and most 



