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conducting research work at Kew and other herbaria, working 

 under a National Research Council fellowship. Dr. Cam]) is 

 assisting in the instruction of the classes for Professional Gard- 

 ners. 



Dr. Oakes Ames, who recently resigned as Arnold professor 

 of botany at Harvard, has been awarded the George Robert 

 White Medal of Honor of The Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society for his services to horticulture over a long period of years. 

 (Science) 



Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, botanist of the Field Museum of Na- 

 tural History left Chicago on October 8th for a three months' 

 airplane expedition in the jungles of Brazil, searching for Car- 

 nauba palm trees. The oil from the palm nuts is used in making 

 waxes and polishes. The expedition is being sent by the S. C. 

 Johnson and Son Company, makers of various commercial 

 waxes. 



Dr. Rollins A. Emerson of Cornell University and Mr. J. H. 

 Kempton of the U. S. Dep't of Agriculture have completed a 

 survey of the system of maize culture practiced by the Maya 

 Indians of the Yucatan Peninsula. (Science) 



New Horticultural Garden at the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden 



The part of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden lying between the 

 Brooklyn Museum and the Mt. Prospect Reservoir which for 

 lack of funds has lain undeveloped for years is fast taking shape 

 as a formal horticultural garden. The work which this transfor- 

 mation has entailed, now virtually completed with the excep- 

 tion of a few minor items, has been made possible through 

 C.W.A. funds. 



The new garden, which covers about three acres, has been 

 constructed and arranged in accordance with plans drawn by 

 Mr. Harold A. Caparn, Consulting Landscape Architect of the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



The central feature of the new garden is a long grass panel 

 60 feet in width and over 400 feet long. At each end of this 

 "long green" two columns are to be placed and between each 

 pair of columns, a water basin. At intervals of about 80 feet on 



