NEWS NOTES 



Leaders Invited for 1933 Field Schedule 

 The Chairman of the Field Committee would be glad to hear 

 from members of the Club who have not led field trips during 

 the past few years, or new members who have not led any trips 

 yet, as to excursions which they might organize and conduct for 

 the Club in the 1933 Schedule. The Chairman believes that 

 there may be members, whom he has not particularly invited 

 to lead trips, and who may be well qualified, by acquanitance 

 with interesting botanical localities, to enrich the field schedule. 

 He will be glad to hear from any who will lead field trips, with 

 suggestions as to place, objective, transportation, and choice of 

 dates suitable to them. The field schedules have been enlarged 

 in recent years through the increasing cooperation of members, 

 for the benefit of all, and there are probably others the chairman 

 does not happen to know, who might contribute to the value of 

 our excursions. 



Raymond H. Torre y, 

 Chairman, Field Committee, 

 99-28 193rd Street, Hollis, L.I., N.Y. 

 Telephone Hollis 5-5139. 



At the Meeting of the Botanical Society of America in 

 Atlantic City in December the following officers were elected: 

 President, E. J. Kraus of the University of Chicago; Vice- 

 president, G. E. Nichols, of Yale University; Secretary, L. C. 

 Petry of Fayette, Mo.; Treasurer, H. A. Gleason of the New 

 York Botanical Garden; Editor of the American Journal of Bot- 

 any, Sam F. Trelease of Columbia University. 



The herbarium of the Field Museum of Natural History has 

 been presented by the University of Chicago with more than 

 51,000 botanical specimens, assembled by the late John M. 

 Coulter, for many years head of the botanical department of the 

 university. It includes hundreds of type specimens of new 

 plants, historic collections made by early botanists who ex- 

 plored the western and southwestern regions of the United 

 States and thousands of rare plants from widely scattered parts 

 of the eastern hemisphere. With this addition, the herbarium of 

 the museum now consists of more than 656,000 specimens from 



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