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NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Secretary of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club, has been elected to membership in the National Academy 

 of Sciences. 



Dr. Mel. T. Cook, formerly Professor of Plant Pathology in 

 Rutgers College and Plant Pathologist of the New Jersey 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, is now located at the Insular 

 Experiment Station at Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, as Expert on 

 Diseases of Sugar Cane. 



Dr. W. W. Rowlee, Professor of Botany in Cornell University, 

 died on August 8th in his sixty-second year. He had been 

 especially interested during recent years in the balsa or corkwood 

 {Ochroma Lagopus and its relatives.) His studies of these light 

 woods, used in the construction of aeroplanes and life-rafts, 

 had taken him to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and 

 elsewhere in the tropics. He had been for several years a 

 member of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



Dr. Charles Frederick Millspaugh, Curator of the Depart- 

 ment of Botany in the Field Museum of Chicago since 1894, 

 died on September 15th in his seventieth year. Dr. Millspaugh, 

 who was born in Ithaca, N. Y., and was a nephew of Ezra 

 Cornell, founder of Cornell University, was for several years in 

 early manhood a practising physician at Binghamton, N. Y. 

 Later he was for a short period botanist at West Virginia Univer- 

 sity. He devoted much time to travel and botanical exploration, 

 and made collections in Mexico, Brazil and numerous islands 

 of the Antillean region. 



A largely attended dinner in honor of Dr. H. H. Rusby^ 

 Dean of the College of Pharmacy and Past President of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, was held at the Hotel Pennsylvania on 

 the evening of April i6th. The climax of the program was the 

 presentation to him of the Remington Honor Medal, awarded 

 by the New York Section of the American Pharmaceutical 

 ^Association for the most noteworthy contribution to pharmacy 

 during the preceding year, with special reference to his achieve- 

 ments as head of the Mulford Expedition to South America, 



