NEWS NOTES 



At the annual meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club in 

 January it was decided to establish a new type of membership — 

 Field Membership — for those who might wish to go on the field 

 trips of the club. Last year nearly one hundred regular trips were 

 scheduled. The cost of the new membership will be two dollars. 



New leaders desired for field trips. Both old and new mem- 

 bers of the club are invited to offer suggestions regarding one 

 day or week-end trips to places within easy reach of the city. It 

 is especially desired to have leaders to places of interest that 

 have not been visited by the club. Those who are willing to 

 lead or who will offer suggestions regarding trips are asked to 

 communicate with the chairman of the field committee, Ray- 

 mond H. Torrey, 99-28 193rd Street, Hollis, L.I., N.Y. before 

 March 1st. 



On the recommendation of Director Merrill, the Board of 

 Managers of the New York Botanical Garden at its annual 

 meeting on January 14th, designated the general herbarium of 

 the institution as the "Britton Herbarium, New York Botanical 

 Garden," in honor of Dr. N. L. Britton, late director of the in- 

 stitution. The building up of the reference collections was pecul- 

 iarly close to Dr. Britton 's heart. During his lifetime he saw the 

 great reference collections of botanical material built up from 

 the nucleus of the Torrey Herbarium of Columbia University, 

 perhaps 400,000 specimens, deposited at the Garden in 1899, to 

 a total of 1,774,687 specimens, a collection particularly rich in 

 types and in historical material. The herbarium is now the 

 second largest in America and one of the great herbariums of the 

 world. Precedents for the action are found in the designation of 

 the fern herbarium of the Garden in 1907 as the "Undenvood 

 Fern Herbarium" in honor of Professor L. M. Underwood, and 

 of the moss herbarium as the "E. G. Britton Moss Herbarium" 

 in 1934. During 1934 a total of 70,170 specimens were poisoned, 

 mounted and distributed into the herbarium. 



The first number of a new botanical monthly appeared in 

 January — The Botanical Review, edited by H. A. Gleason and 

 E. H. Fulling of the New York Botanical Garden. The first 

 number contains an article by Dr. L. O. Kunkel on Possibilities 



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