NEWS NOTES 



The next issue of Torreya, the September-October number , 

 will consist largely of an illustrated article on the Cladoniae of 

 the Torrey Botanical Club Range by Raymond H. Torrey. The 

 article will have a simple key for determining the 45 species and 

 numerous forms that have been found or may be found in our 

 range. 



The New York State College of Forestry has named the 

 original building of the college in honor of Dr. William L. Bray, 

 professor of botany and dean of the graduate school. Dr. Bray 

 was the first head of the college and has given courses of botany 

 there and at the summer camp of the college at Cranberry Lake. 

 Before going to Syracuse Dr. Bray was professor of botany at 

 the University of Texas. 



At the commencement of the College of the City of Detroit 

 on June 6 the degree of Doctor of Science was awarded Oliver 

 Atkins Farwell, botanist of Park Davis Company since 1892. 

 The citation accompanying the award stressed Dr. Farwell's 

 accomplishments in botany and particularly his work in the 

 revision of the National Formulary and the Pharmacopoeia. Dr. 

 Farwell is a member of the Torrey Botanical Club as well as of 

 numerous other botanical societies. 



Last August the LTniversity of Wisconsin established an 

 arboretum of 235 acres. Now it is announced that an additional 

 area of 190 acres of marsh and prairie land has been added to 

 the arboretum. The whole area will be a wild life refuge and 

 will be used for experiments in reforestation as well as for an 

 arboretum. 



Dr. Arthur B. Seymour who had been associated with the 

 Harvard herbarium for 47 years died on March 29. Dr. Sey- 

 mour was born in Moline, 111. and educated at the University 

 of Illinois. In 1886 he became attached to Harvard. He also 

 taught cryptogamic botany at Radcliffe College. He was a con- 

 tributor to the Century Dictionary and in 1929 compiled a 

 Host-Index of the Fungi of North America. 



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