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During the years from 1927 to 1932 collections of plants 

 were made on Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Molokai and Hawaii. Much 

 of the time he had with him as assistants young Hawaiians, one 

 of Japanese extraction doing much of the illustrating of the 

 "Flora Hawaiiensis." The first volume of the Flora was pub- 

 lished in 1933. 



After a stay of almost a decade in the Hawaiian Islands Mr. 

 Degener has been able to amass an unexcelled collection of 

 Hawaiian plants estimated to contain upward of 40,000 speci- 

 mens. He has written three profusely illustrated books on the 

 Hawaiian flora, one of which is of a popular nature. He has 

 amassed hundreds of illustrations of local plants drawn by 

 students under his personal direction. More than half of these 

 plates yet remain to be published in succeeding books of the 

 Flora. He has collaborated by the loan of specimens to the 

 B. P. Bishop Museum and the Field Museum in monographic 

 studies of the Mosses, Astelias, Peperomias, Labiatae and Com- 

 positae. He has distributed by gift, sale or exchange duplicate 

 specimens of Hawaiian plants to leading botanical institutions 

 in America and Europe. These shipments comprise chiefly 

 endemic plants, though pan-tropic ones are not lacking. 



The lecture was illustrated w r ith lantern slides. 



Meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m. 



Forman T. McLean, Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. S. L. Stevens, professor of plant pathology at the 

 University of Illinois for twenty years died on the sixteenth of 

 August at the age of sixty-three. Dr. Stevens was the author 

 of several textbooks for elementary schools as well as the 

 author of numerous papers on fungi. Among his well-known 

 textbooks are Agriculture for Beginners, Diseases of Economic 

 Plants, and Fungi which cause Plant Diseases. 



Mr. Kenneth K. Mackenzie, a member of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club for many years, died on October 22. Mr. Mac- 

 kenzie, an attorney in New York City, was an authority of the 

 sedges. Two years ago he presented the New York Botanical 

 Garden his herbarium of some 43,000 specimens. In his will he 



