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At Connecticut College a plant hormone laboratory and 

 greenhouse has been completed. The first is underground and 

 completely air conditioned. Special provision has been made for 

 studies on the influence of monochromatic light on phytohor- 

 mones. 



Professor Marie-Yictorin, head of the department of botany 

 of the University of Montreal, whose Flore Laurentienne was 

 reviewed in our September-October issue has been awarded 

 the Coincy Prize by the Paris Academy of Science. 



The University of Pittsburgh has combined the departments 

 of botany and zoology as the department of biology. Dr. Oscar 

 E. Jennings, head of the department of botany has been made 

 head of the new department. All members of both departments 

 are retained under the new arrangement. 



Preserving the Colors in Pressed Plants 



Herbarium specimens, when they get dry, brittle and brown 

 are valuable for study and scientific work, but are scarcely ob- 

 jects of beauty. Many attempts have been made to preserve 

 the colors of flowers and foliage in dried plants, but without 

 any great success. Mr. Fessenden, a member of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, residing in Fleetwood, has been attacking this 

 problem from the chemical side, and has apparently bit upon 

 a practical treatment to keep the colors in both leaves and 

 flowers. He treats them with a chemical which arrests the nor- 

 mal fading of the colors, then seals them in a cellophane enve- 

 lope. The result is a flat specimen, which may be studied from 

 both sides, is flexible and easily handled without danger of 

 breakage, and which retains its natural color for a long time, 

 even when exposed to sunlight. 



His exhibits of these at The New York Botanical Garden 

 and at the Horticultural Society of New York have both aroused 

 much favorable comment. Even the orchids, so difficult to keep 

 from turning black with usual drying, retain their colors under 

 Mr. Fessenden's treatment. 



Field Trip Leaders for 1936 Wanted 



The Field Committee of the Torrey Botanical Club desires 

 to complete the schedule of field trips for 1936 somewhat earlier 



