NEWS NOTES 



Among the foreign members elected to the Linnean Society 

 of London was Dr. Elmer B. Merrill of the New York Botanical 

 Garden. Dr. Merrill was the only American elected this year. 



Dr. Adolf Pascher, professor of botany at the German Uni- 

 versity at Prague, has been appointed director of the Botanical 

 Garden and Institute. (Science) 



At Oberlin College, the retirement is announced of Professor 

 Frederick Orville Grover, head of the department of botany. 

 Professor Grover became associate professor at Oberlin in 1898 

 and was appointed professor in 1900. (Science) 



An Opportunity to Cooperate in the Study 

 of Hawaiian Plants! 



Because of the unique geographical position of the Hawaiian 

 Islands, the writer ten years ago realized that the existence of 

 a complete, illustrated Hawaiian flora would be of considerable 

 scientific interest and value. As no work of this kind has ever 

 been written — few people are aware that vast areas on many of 

 the larger islands are even now botanically almost unknown — 

 he resolved to attempt this task himself. Meeting with some 

 local opposition and relieved of all teaching duties, he has been 

 able to concentrate since 1927 on the collecting and studying 

 of Hawaiian Vascular Plants. The resulting herbarium, now 

 stored at the New York Botanical Garden, comprises about 

 40,000 specimens. The writer wishes to communicate with bota- 

 nists who are interested in some of the Hawaiian genera rep- 

 resented and who may desire to aid in their study. The result 

 of such studies would be finally embodied in the ''Flora Hawaii- 

 ensis" or "New Illustrated Flora of the Hawaiian Islands." 

 Address Otto Degener, Care New York Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx Park, New York. 



At the Arboretum of the University of Wisconsin which was 

 established last fall, some 13,000, Norway and White Pines and 

 2000 Spruce trees have been planted and other young trees have 

 been set out. The Arboretum is to be an outdoor experimental 



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