NEWS NOTES 



William Willard Ashe died in Washington on March 

 18 at the age of 60. Mr. Ashe graduated from the University of 

 North Carolina in 1891 and from Cornell in the following year. 

 He was senior inspector in the forest service. For many years 

 he had been active in the creation, preservation and utilization 

 of wood lots and in the development and aquisition of forest 

 lands by the National Government. He was an authority on 

 the hardwoods of the southern states. He was a member of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club and frequently contributed descrip- 

 tions of new species or varieties of trees. 



Dr. Fred W. Foxwortiiv, who has been Forest Research 

 Officer for the Federated Malay States since 1918, is retiring 

 from government service, and his address after April 15 will be 

 1009 Huntington Building, Miami, Florida. Doctor Foxworthy 

 is known for many important contributions to our knowledge 

 of the woods of the Indo-Malayan region. He has held member- 

 ship in the Torrey Botanical Club since 1906, and this year has 

 become a life member of the Club. 



APPEAL 



To Botanical Institutes and Botanists for 



Funds Towards the Erection of a 



Bust of Dr. John Briquet 



On the 26th of October, 1931, Dr. John Briquet, Director 

 of the Botanic Garden and "Conservatoire botanique" in 

 Geneva, died at the age of 61, after a brief illness. This painful 

 loss must awaken sincere regret throughout the botanical 

 world and arouse feelings of deepest sympathy for his family 

 and the institutes with which he was so long and honourably 

 connected. In his death botanists have lost a true friend, a 

 lovable, highly accomplished man and a recognised authority; 

 one whose scientific conscientiousness is reflected in all his pub- 

 lished works. 



All who have attended meetings of the International Botani- 

 cal Congresses— in 1900, 1905, 1910, and 1926— will realize the 

 great loss botany has suffered by his death. At those meetings 

 he was an outstanding figure in all discussions on Nomenclature, 

 and the role he played as recorder, by his tactful, sagacious 



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