NEWS NOTES 



In Torreya for January-February of 1932 there was a note re- 

 garding the foundation of the Morris Botanical Garden, School 

 and Museum by the will of the late John T. Morris. Plans for 

 the organization of the Garden are now announced. Dr. Rodney 

 H. True, professor of Botany at the University of Pennsylvania 

 is the director, with the following scientific staff: Dr. John M. 

 Fogg, taxonomist; Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, ecologist; Dr. Harlan 

 H. York, pathologist; Dr. Conway Zirkle, geneticist. Mr. James 

 Lambert, superintendent of the University botanical gardens, 

 is superintendent of the arboretum and Mr. John Tonkin, who 

 was head gardener of the Morris estate, will be head gardener. 



Sample sheets of the Flora of the Hawaiian Islands by Otto 

 Degener have been received. The plan of the Flora is unique in 

 that more familiar plants are to be described first without espe- 

 cial effort to complete either families or genera. As the descrip- 

 tion and illustration of each species are on opposite sides of a 

 page, the pages can be combined according to relationship as 

 fast as they are issued. Mr. Degener has recently shipped a large 

 collection of his plants to the New York Botanical Garden for 

 critical study. 



Purdue University announces the completion last summer of 

 the new laboratories for plant physiology and pathology. The 

 laboratories are built around greenhouse units. There is space 

 for elementary study as well as advanced study and research. 

 In the basements there will be equipment for research on con- 

 trolled light, temperature, and humidity. New advanced courses 

 will be offered both in plant pathology and plant physiology. 



{Science) 



The Stephen Hales Prize of the American Society of Plant 

 Physiologists has been awarded to Dr. Hubert B. Vickery, of 

 the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, for his work 

 on vegetable proteins. 



{Science) 



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