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New York and Professor F. McAllister, Dept. of Botany, 

 University of Texas, Austin, Texas were unanimously elected 

 to membership in the Club. 



Professor John S. Karling of Columbia University gave a 

 very interesting talk on "Tapping Achras zapota for Chicle in 

 Tropical America." 



Forman T. McLean 

 Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



Special price on Torrey Club publications. The following 

 volumes of the Memoirs of the Club will be sold at the prices 

 given as long as the supply lasts: 



Vol. 5. List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta growing 



without cultivation in Northeastern North America. 



Pages 1-377. 1893-1894. List price $3.00, reduced to 



50 cents. 

 Vol. 10. Burgess, Edward Sanford. History of Pre-Clusian 



botany in its relation to Aster. Pages i-xii, 1-447. 1902. 



List price $3.00, reduced to 50 cents. 

 Vol. 13. Burgess, Edward Sanford. Species and varieties of 



Biotian Asters, with discussion of variability in Aster. 



Pages i-xv, 1-419, plates 1-13. 1906. List price $3.00, 



reduced to 50 cents. 

 Vol. 6. No. 3. Hazen, Tracy Elliot. The life history of Sphae- 



rella lacustris (Haematococcus pluvialis). Pages 211- 



246, plates 86-87, colored. 1899. List price 50 cents, 



reduced to 25 cents. 

 Vol. 11. No. 2. Hazen, Tracy Elliot. The Ulothricaceae and 



Chaetophoraceae of the United States. Pages 135-250, 



plates 20-42. 1902. List price $1.75, reduced to 50 



cents. 



The Brooklyn Botanic Garden reports that a box of Iris 

 flower stems with buds was given to a visitor on June 1 and car- 

 ried to London where they were blooming freely ten days later. 



The flowers were miscellaneous varieties of the Bearded 

 Iris. 



The Botanic Garden also reports the opening on May 9th of a 

 Local Flora Section of about three acres. This area is planted on 

 an ecological basis. 



