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will find nesting sites. Mrs. William Wallace Nichols is (hair- 

 man of the sanctuary committee which is making appeals for 

 funds to complete the project this fall. About S3, 500 will be 

 needed of which one third has been contributed to date. 



Professor Friedrich August Went died at The Hague on July 

 25th at the age of seventy-two. Professor Went had done im- 

 portant work in tropical agriculture in Java, and Dutch Guiana. 

 In addition to his services to agriculture, Professor Went estab- 

 lished a biological physiological institute at Utrecht. 



On Tuesday, June 11, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden cele- 

 brated its eighth annual Rose Garden Day. Mr. Charles H. 

 Totty gave an interesting talk on "How to grow roses." Follow- 

 ing a tour of the Rose Garden, where more than 3,000 plants 

 in about 300 varieties are growing, tea was served in the rotunda 

 of the laboratory building by members of the Woman's Auxil- 

 iary of the Garden. 



Dr. Harold St. John, professor of botany at the University 

 of Hawaii is spending the summer and fall studying at Harvard 

 University and visiting the herbaria in various European cities. 

 Dr. O. N. Allen will act as head of the botanical department of 

 the university during Dr. St. John's absence. 



The National Research Council has made a grant to Dr. A. 

 B. Stout of the New York Botanical Garden for travel expenses 

 and technical assistance in connection with his study ofseed- 

 lessness in grapes. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe has been elected director of the New 

 York Botanical Garden to succeed Dr. Merrill when he leaves 

 on October 1. Dr. Howe has been a member of the scientific staff 

 of the museum since 1901 and assistant director since 1923. He 

 is an authority on marine algae and has specialized in the cul- 

 tivation of dahlias, irises and peonies. The dahlia border at the 

 garden which attracts thousands of visitors every fall has been 

 under his direction since its formation. Dr. Howe w r as the first 

 editor of Torreya. He has also been editor of the Bulletin of the 

 Torreya Botanical Club and of the Journal of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



