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Following one of the provisions of the act of the last Congress 

 establishing a National Arboretum at Washington, Secretary of 

 Agriculture Jardine has announced the membership of the 

 Advisory Council, which is to plan and develop the arboretum. 

 The members are Frederic A. Delano, Washington, D. C, 

 member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 Chairman; L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, New York, president of the 

 Botanical Society of America; Henry S. Graves, New Haven, 

 Conn., Dean of the School of Forestry, Yale University; Harlan 

 P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass., former president of the American 

 Association of Nurserymen; John C. Merriam, president of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington; Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, 

 Washington, D. C, chairman of the District of Columbia 

 committee of the Garden Club of America; Frederick Lew 

 Olmsted, Brookline, Mass., former president of the American 

 Society of Landscape Architects; Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, Glen 

 Cove, L. I., secretary of the Garden Club of America; Robert 

 Pyle, West Grove, Pa., director of the Society of Arrierican 

 Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists and a former president 

 of the American Rose Society. 



Dr. T. D. A. Cockerell of the University of Colorado, who 

 is on a botanical trip through Europe and Asia, reached Lenin- 

 grad the middle of July. Professor Komaroff, a most enthusiastic 

 botanist, was his host in visiting the botanic gardens and library. 

 The gardens are very fine and are being partly made over and 

 enlarged. Palms and other tropical plants grow in the green 

 houses, while many arctic plants are found in the rockeries. 



Dr. Cockerell stopped in Moscow, then went on across 

 to Siberia to Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. At the latter place he 

 spent some time in the new research laboratory supported by 

 the University of Irkutsk. 



Dr. Bruce Fink, an authority on lichens and for over twenty 

 years professor of botany at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 

 died suddenly on July i6 in his sixty-sixth year. 



Dr. William H. Eyster, professor of botany at Bucknell 

 University, sailed on August 20 for Germany. He will spend a 

 year in study there as a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim 

 Memorial Foundation. 



