NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Ludwig Diels, General Director of the Botanical 

 Gardens and Museum of Berlin has come to this country to lec- 

 ture during the summer at the Century of Progress Exposition 

 in Chicago. Dr. Diels visited the Botanical Garden in New York 

 on his arrival and will stop there again after his return from a 

 visit in Florida. 



Dr. Elmer D. Merrill, Director of the New York Botani- 

 cal Garden presented a paper on Loureiro and his work at the 

 annual meeting of the Philosophical Society of Philadelphia on 

 the 20th of April. 



"Science" describes the third expedition from the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan for a biological survey of the Maya region of 

 Central America in cooperation with the Carnegie Institute of 

 Washington. Mr. C. L. Lundell of the University herbarium 

 accompanied the expedition as botanist. The objective of the 

 expedition is the great savannah area lying beyond Lake Peten, 

 Guatemala, where detailed studies and collections of the fauna 

 and flora will be made. This is a part of a twenty-year project 

 to ascertain the present biological conditions and environment 

 under which the great Maya civilization rose and declined. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe and Dr. E. D. Merrill attended 

 the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences in 

 Washington during the last week in April. 



It is proposed to name a Colorado mountain peak after Dr. 

 William Trelease, emeritus professor of botany of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois, formerly head of the Henry Shaw School of 

 Botany at Washington University, St. Louis, and director of 

 the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania 

 was formally dedicated on June second. At the exercises ad- 

 dresses were made by Dr. Rodney H. True, of the department 

 of botany of the university, Dr. Reginald Buller, of the Uni- 

 versity of Manitoba, Dr. Robert H. Harper, of Columbia and 

 Dr. A. L. Lowell, president of Harvard. The honorary degree 

 of L. L. D. was conferred on Dr. Lowell and the degree of D. S. 

 on Dr. Buller and Dr. Harper. 



The National Academy of Science has awarded its Public 

 Welfare Medal to Dr. David Fairchild, of the Division of 

 Foreign Plant Introduction of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, for "eminence in the application of science to 

 the public welfare." 



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