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Wilhelm N. Suksdorf, for many years an outstanding field 

 botanist in the Pacific Northwest, was struck by a train and 

 killed near his home at Bingen, Washington, Mr. Suksdorf has 

 published many lists of additions to the flora of Washington and 

 recently revised the genus Amsinckia, adding many new species. 

 By his will his large private herbarium is given to the State 

 College of Washington. 



A new home for the National Botanic Garden in Washing- 

 ton has recently been finished at the foot of Capitol Hill. Mr. 

 George Hess has been director of the garden for more than 

 sixteen years. 



The park naturalists of the Yosemite National Park have 

 this summer established a garden of native plants directly back 

 of the park museum. The work was made possible by a gift of 

 $4,000 by Miss Marjorie Montgomery Ward. 



Dr. Roland M. Harper, whose article on Erigenia in Ala- 

 bama occurs in this issue, has contributed to every volume of 

 Torreya since its establishment in 1901. In a news note of our 

 last issue, on page 140. we referred to his attending the Congress 

 of Genetics in New York. We should have said the Congress of 

 Eugenics. 



Dr. Ivan M. Johnston, research associate of the Arnold 

 Arboretum of Harvard University, recently appointed to a 

 Guggenheim fellowship, sailed on November 10 for a year of 

 study in England, Argentina and Chile. He will assemble data 

 for a discussion of the extent and significance of the trans- 

 equatorial relationship existing between the floras of the more 

 or less arid regions of North and South America. 



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