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NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Edward Sanford Burgess died on Thursday, February 

 twenty-third at his home in Yonkers. Dr. Burgess had been a 

 member of the Torrey Botanical Club for thirty-two years and 

 was president of the club from 1912 to 1914. Three years ago 

 he retired from Hunter College where he was Professor of Natural 

 Sciences. Dr. Burgess was widely known as an authority on 

 asters and had described many new forms. 



Mrs. Flora W. Patterson, widely known as a specialist in the 

 study of fungi, died on Sunday, February fifth. Mrs. Patterson 

 was for twenty-seven years, 1 896-1 923, mycologist in charge of 

 the pathological collections of the Bureau of Plant Industry of 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Mrs. Patterson was the 

 author of many bulletins on fungi published by the Department 

 of Agriculture. She was born eighty years ago in Columbus, 

 Ohio. 



Honorary Curator S. B. Parish of the University of California 

 herbarium celebrated his ninetieth birthday on January thir- 

 teenth. Mr. Parish has served at various times as collaborator 

 in the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute and as a 

 lecturer at Stanford University. He had been Honorary Curator 

 of the herbarium at The University of California for seven years 

 and still devotes part of his time to work there. 



At the Nashville meeting of the Botanical Society of America 

 Dr. A. H. R. Buller of the University of Manitoba was elected 

 president for the ensuing year. Dr. I. W. Bailey of Harvard 

 was elected vice-president. 



The botanical specimens of the late Ellsworth Bethel, of 

 Denver, have been given to the Colorado Agricultural College 

 and the University of Colorado. The collections consist of 

 over 10,000 mounted specimens and a much larger number of 

 unmounted ones. Most of the specimens are of plants of 

 Colorado. 



In Torreya for September-October, 1921, a note appeared 

 announcing the presentation of Mr. J. Roberts Lowrie's her- 

 barium to the Pennsylvania State College. This gift was rich 

 in plants of central Pennsylvania. 



