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Mr. Henry de la Montague Jr., the present business man- 

 ager and assistant treasurer of the garden, will become assistant 

 director to succeed Dr. Howe. Dr. H. A. Gleason will become 

 deputy director, but will retain his present title of head curator. 



Dr. E. D. Merrill has sailed for Europe to attend the 6th 

 International Botanical Congress at Amsterdam from Septem- 

 ber 2 to 7. He is chairman of the official American delegation 

 and president of the section on taxonomy and nomenclature. 



Dr. Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Asa Gray professor of botany 

 at Harvard University since 1899, died at Jaffrey, New Hamp- 

 shire on July 27. He was appointed an assistant in the Gray Her- 

 barium in 1890, two years later he became curator, a position 

 he held after he was made professor and placed in charge of the 

 botany department. He resigned in March of this year on 

 reaching the age of 70 and was made professor emeritus. Dr. 

 Robinson was editor of Rhodora, the journal of the New 

 England Botanical Club, from 1899 till 1928. He edited the 

 seventh edition of Gray's Manual of Botany and was the 

 author of many botanical papers. 



The American Museum of Natural History has sent a scien- 

 tific expedition consisting of Mr. Suydam Cutting and Mr. 

 Arthur S. Yernay to Tibet to collect anthropological material 

 for the museum and botanical specimens for the Botanical 

 Garden. Thee xpedition is the result of five years of negotiations 

 with the Grand Lama. Out of respect for Buddist traditions no 

 animals will be collected. 



Dr. G. W. Martin, professor of botany in the University of 

 Iowa, and Dr. R. E. Woodson, of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 

 den, have sailed to the Panama Canal Zone. They will explore 

 sections of the island and mountain areas of the Canal Zone 

 and Panama and the Santa Marta Mountains of Columbia. 

 They will collect especially Myxomycetes and Basidiomycetes. 



