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3400 young trees and shrubs, representing about 1500 species 

 and varieties. These accessions have made necessary the estab- 

 lishing of a temporary nursery in the area once used for "war 

 gardens." 



Professor G. Proctor Cooper of East Lee, Mass., and Mr. H. 

 Huebner of Groton, Mass., have been appointed collaborators 

 of the New York Botanical Garden. Mr. Cooper is visiting the 

 West Indies and northern South America making collections 

 of plants and woods. Mr. Huebner is on an expedition to the 

 East Indies where he will give especial attention to collecting 

 ornamental plants. 



{Journal of the New York Botanical Garden) 



Jason R. Swallen, assistant botanist in the Grass Herbarium 

 of the U. S. National Museum, has returned from a several 

 weeks' trip to Yucatan. He brought back a collection of grasses, 

 sedges and parasitic rusts. The trip was made in cooperation 

 with the University of Michigan and the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington. {Science) 



Dr. R. A. Harper, of the geological Survey of University, 

 Alabama, came to New York in August to attend the Inter- 

 national Congress of Genetics. Dr. Harper remained in the 

 city for a month in order to do some research in the library of 

 the New York Botanical Garden. 



