NEWS NOTES 



New York State's biggest tree-planting season, conducted 

 by the Civilian Conservation Corps is under way. The State 

 Conservation Department estimated that 40,000,000 trees will 

 be planted on 50,000 acres of land before the season ends. Plant- 

 ing operations are being conducted in the counties of Allegany, 

 Chautauqua, Chenango, Cortland, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, 

 Madison, Oswego, Otsego, St. Lawrence, Schoharie, Schuyler, 

 Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Suffolk. 



The Philadelphia Academy of Sciences has sponsored 

 twenty-four expeditions for collecting this year. Among these 

 Brooke Dolan is heading an expedition to collect birds, animals 

 and plants in eastern Tibet. Dr. Frances W. Pennell has been 

 collecting plants in the high plateau of central Mexico. Mrs. 

 J. Norman Henry and Miss Josephine Henry collected plants in 

 British Columbia. Dr. Walter M. Benner collected in the north- 

 western part of the United States. Dr. Witmer Stae and Dr. 

 Bayard Long have also made collecting trips. 



Dr. Harold N. Moldenke, who reviews the Flora Laurenti- 

 enne in this issue is now at Kew, England, continuing mono- 

 graphic work on the Yerbenaceae and Avicenniaceae while his 

 wife is continuing work on the taxonomy of the ascomysetous 

 family Patellariaceae. In the spring they plan a long continental 

 tour, visiting the chief herbaria of the various countries. 



Under a fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Founda- 

 tion of New York, Dr. T. H. Goodspeed, professor of botany and 

 director of the Botanical Garden of the University of California, 

 will spend the months October to February collecting species of 

 Nicotiana and related genera in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argen- 

 tina. Accompanying Dr. Goodspeed as collector will be James 

 West, of San Rafael, and Mrs. Ynes Mexia, collector in Central 

 and South America, will join the expedition at Lima. Most of 

 the collecting will be done in higher altitudes of the Andes, but 

 it is anticipated that certain members of the expedition will col- 

 lect south of Santiago, crossing the Andes in the Chilean lake 

 region and continuing through the Patagonian pampas to 

 Buenos Aires. (Science) 



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