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slides and with material which he had gathered during the trip. 

 The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 p.m., after which re- 

 freshments were served by the entertainment committee. 



FoRMAN T. McLean 

 Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Nathaniel Lord Britton has resigned as director of the 

 New York Botanical Garden and as secretary of the board of 

 managers in order to devote more time to private research, 

 especially on the vegetation of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 

 Dr. Britton has served as director-in-chief of the garden since 

 it was organized in 1896, and was elected secretary of the board of 

 manager two years before the garden was actually started. The 

 growth and development of the garden is largely his work. Inci- 

 dentally he has been interested in the beautification of the city and 

 has helped in plans for planting and caring for the city trees. In 

 connection with his work in the garden Dr. Britton has made more 

 than twenty trips to the West Indies, collecting hundreds of thous- 

 ands of specimens for the herbarium of the garden. 



Dr. Elmer D. Merrill, director of the Botanical Garden and of 

 the experiment station of the University of California, is to succeed 

 Dr. Britton as director of the Garden. 



Dr. Leigh H. Pennington, professor of forest botany at the 

 New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse, died suddenly in 

 Washington on April 23, at the age of fifty-one years. He was on 

 sabbatical leave and had been employed by the government as 

 expert forest pathologist in the study of the white pine blister 

 rust. He had taught at the College of Forestry for fourteen years. 

 ("Science) 



Dr. A. S. Hitchcock, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 left for South Africa on June 8. He will attend, by invitation, 

 the South African Association for the Advancement of Science 

 at Cape Town and Pretoria and will give a paper on the "Relation 

 of Grasses to Man." Later he will spend about a month collecting 

 grasses on the tableland about Nairobi. He hopes to obtain 



