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Dr. Arthur P. Kelly, assistant professor of botany at Rutgers 

 University, has been appointed Associate Ecologist at the Al- 

 legheny Forest Experiment Station. The headquarters of the 

 station are at the University of Pennsylvania, and its work covers 

 forest research in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and 

 Maryland. 



Educational work was featured in the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden's exhibit at the International Flower Show at the Grand 

 Central Palace, N. Y. C., March 19-24. The center of the 

 booth was occupied by a large table on which the "Evolutionary 

 Tree of the Plant Kingdom" was arranged in diagrammatic 

 form, with living plants illustrating each of its branches — algae, 

 fungi, mosses, hepatics, clubmosses, ferns, cycads, conifers, 

 dicotyledons and monocotyledons. On another table a model 

 of the children's gardens, constructed by Miss Kathryn P. 

 Clark, instructor, was exhibited. Two types of Wardian cases 

 were shown, as well as articles made by children in classes at 

 the Garden, which included small desert gardens, basket work, 

 flower calendars, leaf print collections, etc. 



Sporelings of the rare Hartstongue Fern with a special 

 leaflet on the subject, written for the occasion by Dr. R. C. 

 Benedict, illustrated the Garden's activity in the conservation of 

 native plants. Petri dishes filled by the Garden and exposed by 

 the pupils of one of the New York City High Schools for the 

 study of bacteria and molds, were shown as an example of this 

 form of the Garden's cooperation with the schools. 



Dr. H. A. Gleason, of the New York Botanical Garden, sailed 

 on March 22 for England. He will spend several months in 

 the study of British Guianan plants in the Kew Herbarium, then 

 visit other herbaria in England and on the Continent. 



Cornell University has recently received a gift of a tract of 

 500 acres of abandoned farm land in Newfield to be used for 

 work in forestry and botany. 



The Allegany Park Summer School will commence its second 

 session on July 7th and continue through August 25th. The 

 school is located in the Allegany State Park in the south-western 

 part of New York State. The faculty of the school this summer 

 will consist of Dr. Robert E. Coker, director and professor of 



