NEWS NOTES 



The New York Botanical Garden has announced a series of 

 nine courses to be given this coming year. The courses include 

 plant geography, practical courses in growing of plants, and 

 field courses on trees, ferns, and birds and their food plants. 

 Several of the courses are divided into sections which may be 

 taken separately but which together make a whole. The courses 

 are planned for afternoons, Saturdays, and the bird course for 

 Sunday mornings with, the purpose of making them available 

 for teachers. 



Dr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Graves spent the past summer 

 in Europe, visiting the chief botanic gardens in England, 

 France, Germany and other countries. Dr. Graves also spent 

 some time in the study of the European chestnut. 



Professor W. F. Ganong, since 1894 professor of botany 

 and director of the Botanic Garden at Smith College, retired 

 this June under the age limit, and has been made professor 

 emeritus. He will continue residence for the present at North- 

 ampton. {Science) 



The Board of Trustees of Wellesley College has made Dr. 

 Margaret C. Ferguson research professor of botany. She retires 

 from active service in the department of which whe was ap- 

 pointed chairman in 1904. Dr. Ferguson will continue her cyto- 

 logical and genetical studies of Petunia at the college. Dr. 

 Laetitia M. Snow has been appointed professor of botany and 

 has been granted leave of absence for the coming year. She will 

 continue her work on bacteria in windblown sand at the Hop- 

 kins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California. {Science) 



The New York Botanical Garden has received several col- 

 lections of trees and shrubs during the past summer. In ex- 

 change with the Department of Parks of Rochester 160 varieties 

 of lilac in the form of 406 rooted cuttings, 1324 slips represent- 

 ing 298 species of trees and shrubs and 12 young trees represent- 

 ing fastigiate forms of elm, maple, apple and linden, were 

 received. The firm of Bobbink and Atkins of Rutherford, N. J. 

 made the garden a gift of 3000 rose bushes representing 330 

 named varieties and 500 plants of Hibiscus hybrids. The Boyce 

 Thompson Institute for Plant Research gave the garden some 



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