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every part of the earth. Students will continue to have access 

 to the entire study collections of the museum. (Science) 



At the Atlantic City meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science the various societies connected 

 with botany held a joint meeting to commemorate the centen- 

 ary of Julius von Sachs, the founder of the modern science of 

 experimental plant physiology. Dr. H. D. Campbell of Stanford 

 University, representing the Botanical Society of America spoke 

 on Sach's Textbook: Its Influence on Botany in America; Dr. 

 R. H. True of the University of Pennsylvania, representing the 

 American Society of Plant Physiologists, spoke on Julius von 

 Sachs, the Man and the Teacher; Dr. C. E. Allen of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, representing the Botanical Section of the 

 A.A.A.S., spoke on Sachs, the Last of the Epitomists. 



Swarthmore College has published a report of the Arthur 

 Hoyt Scott Horticultural Foundation describing the plans for 

 the horticultural development of the college campus, the care 

 and improvement of the natural wooded area along Crum 

 Creek, and the formation of a large arboretum and botanical 

 garden. The purpose of the Foundation is stated to be "to de- 

 velop on the Swarthmore College property such planting as will 

 best serve the average home owner in Swarthmore and in the 

 surrounding territory. The planting, while of scientific interest 

 to the botanical department of the college, will be primarily 

 focused to give to the students and to the general public an ex- 

 ample of the beauty of our native vegetation and of foreign 

 plants which thrive in this climate." One section of the arbo- 

 retum is to contain only trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants 

 native to Delaware County; another section will contain those 

 native to Pennsylvania; a third section, those native to North 

 America that can be grown in the region. An area about an ex- 

 tensive meadow along the Creek will form the botanical garden 

 with the plants arranged according to botanical families. As to 

 work already accomplished since the Foundation was estab- 

 lished two years ago, there is described the improvements made 

 in the natural forest, the making of paths, and development of 

 a nursery as well as the planting done on the campus. In con- 

 clusion there is listed the 1250 species and varieties of trees and 

 shrubs and the 550 varieties of herbaceous plants now growing 

 on the College property. 



