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Murrill as Panaeohis semiglohatus Murrill. Dr. Douglass also 



discussed several types of poisoning by mushrooms, illustrating 



by charts the principal features of his discussion. These papers 



will be published in the journals of the Club. 



Meeting adjourned. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 



NEWS ITEMS 



In connection with the nation-wide movement to increase the 

 available food supply for the current year, the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden has furnished the entire time, so far as needed, of an 

 expert gardener to inspect the soil of vacant lots in Brooklyn, 

 and to give advice to individuals, neighborhood groups, and 

 other organizations on planting and the cultivation of crops. 

 The garden has also served as the center of distribution of seed 

 potatoes in Brooklyn for Mayor Mitchel's food supply com- 

 mittee. Several thousand additional copies of the Garden's 

 Leaflets on " The Small Vegetable Garden," and "Some Insect 

 Pests," have been called for. A special class has been started 

 for the training of older boys in vegetable gardening, and over 

 two acres of the Botanic Garden grounds have been planted, 

 chiefly to potatoes and beans. 



Barrington Moore, a recently elected member of the Club, has 

 gone to Plattsburgh with the Officer's Reserve Corps. Mr. 

 Moore was appointed a curator of Forestry at the American 

 Museum of Natural History in January, 191 7. 



The Detroit Free Press records the death on May 15th of 

 Samuel Alexander, long known for his studies of Helianthus . Born 

 in Ohio January 6, 1 841, he went to Michigan when fourteen years 

 old, serving later in the Civil War. During the twentieth anni- 

 versary celebration of the New York Botanical Garden, in Septem- 

 ber, 1915, he delivered a paper on the classification of sunflowers, 

 having devoted many years to this study. He had published a few 

 scientific papers in the Michigan Academy of Sciences Reports, 

 and is reported to have " had in preparation a book on botanical 

 subjects." 



