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Many of these were recommended as house plants. A leaflet de- 

 scriptive of the plants exhibited and giving methods for their 

 culture was distributed. 



"The Wardian Case, a device for growing plants in the school- 

 room or livingroom," is the title of a leaflet just issued by the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden — a reprint of a former issue, revised 

 and enlarged. The Wardian case, a miniature greenhouse in 

 principle, but so arranged as to require no watering for months 

 at a time, was originated nearly ninety years ago by Dr. Na- 

 thaniel Ward, a London physician. The leaflet gives directions 

 for the construction of the case and includes a list of plants which 

 may be successfully grown in it. In general, the plants must be 

 tough-leaved and not prone to mildew, it is said. 



Announcement has been made of the new school for the outdoor 

 study of natural history to be conducted this summer at the 

 Alleghany State Park, about seventy-five miles south of Buff^alo. 

 The director of the school is Dr. Robert E. Coker, Professor of 

 zoology at the University of North Carolina. Field geology and 

 physiography will be in charge of Prof. Allon C. Tester of the 

 University of Iowa. Mr. Norman Taylor of the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden will give the botanical work. Bird study will be 

 in charge of Mr. Aretas A. Saunders of Fairfield, Conn. Nature 

 Study instruction will be given by Mr. W. P. Alexander of the 

 Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Information can be secured 

 from Dr. Charles C. Adams, director of the New York State 

 Museum, Albany, N. Y. 



Dr. B. M. Duggar, of the Missouri Botanical Garden and 

 Washington University, St. Louis, has been appointed professor 

 of applied and physiological botany at the University of Wiscon- 

 sin. Dr. Duggar will take up his residence in Wisconsin in Sep- 

 tember, {Science). 



Last November a memorial window to John Tradescant, the 

 younger, was unveiled in the Ashmolean Museum of the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford. The window is the gift of the garden clubs 

 of Virginia. The elder Tradescant, gardener to Charles I of 

 England, is ,commemorated in the familiar genus, Tradescan- 

 tia. The son travelled in Virginia in 1637, collecting plants, 

 minerals and shells with other objects of interest. His collections 

 made the basis of the Ashmolean Museum. 



