valuable collections of plant material ever made in I > i i 1 1^1 1 New- 

 Guinea. The specimens are largely from the forested areas, up 

 tO an altitude of about 12,000 feet. Between 10 and 15 per Cent 

 of the numbers represent ferns and fern allies. Identifications 

 will be made by E. 1>. Merrill with the assistance of specialists. 

 The extensive Kenya, Luanda and Belgian Congo botanical 

 collections made by Dr. James P. Chapin of The American 

 Museum of Natural History 1926-31 have recently been sub- 

 mitted to The New York Botanical Garden for study and in- 

 corporation in its reference collections. 



A census of the Herbarium of The New York Botanical Gar- 

 den recently completed through the utilization of temporary 

 employees assigned to the Garden by the Emergency Work 

 Bureau shows a total of 1,706,348 specimens in the herbarium 

 at the end of 1933; of these 58,606 are assembled at the local 

 herbarium, representing plants growing within 150 miles of 

 New York City, and are thus available for the use of all stu- 

 dents interested in a study of the local flora. 



Dr. Tracy E. Hazen, president of the Torrey Club, sailed 

 for Puerto Rico on March 29, where he is spending a portion of 

 his sabbatical leave in making confirmatory studies on an un- 

 published filamentous alga which he first brought to the at- 

 tention of the Club in the autumn of 1914. He expects to return 

 to New York before the end of April in order to make further 

 investigations on the chrysophycean genus Tetrasporopsis, 

 upon which he made a preliminary report a year and a half ago, 

 and which was again found in the local flora last spring. 



The first aw r ard of S250 of the George W. Carpenter Fund 

 for encouragement of scientific research has been made by the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to Dr. Francis 

 W. Pennell, curator of botany for his work on the Snapdragon 

 family of eastern North America. This fund will permit publica- 

 tion of Dr. Pennell's book on the subject. The George W. Car- 

 penter Fund is a bequest from the late Mrs. Ellen D. C. Bennett, 

 in memory of her father, one of the earliest members of the 

 academy, who served as treasurer of the institution from 1826 

 to his death in 1880. 



The "Mangareva Expedition" has been organized by the 



