NEWS NOTES 



At the meeting of the Botanical Society of America held in 

 St. Louis in December the following officers were elected : Dr. C. 

 Stuart Gager, president; Dr. H. A. Gleason, vice-president; 

 Dr. F. E. Denny, treasurer; Dr. C. E. Allen, member of the 

 editorial board of the American Journal of Botany. All of these 

 officers are also members of the Torrey Botanical Club. 



The New York Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens of Kew, England, have arranged for an exchange of 

 student gardeners for this year. From New York Mr. Howard 

 Swift is being sent to represent the Botanical Garden. The 

 English Speaking Union is paying the travelling expenses of the 

 students. 



At Huntington College, Indiana, five acres of the partly 

 wooded campus has been set aside for an arboretum and botani- 

 cal garden. It is planned to grow in the garden as many of the 

 flowering plants, shrubs and trees of Indiana as will grow in the 

 region. 



Dr. T. H. Goodspeed, leader of the botanical expedition to 

 the Lower Andes of the University of California, has reported 

 that a collection of 2,000 herbarium specimens has so far been 

 made during the trip. Dr. Goodspeed has given lectures before 

 the American Club of Peru, the University of Chile, the Scien- 

 tific Society of Santiago, and the Museo National de Historia 

 Natural in Chile (Science). 



A new botanical society has recently been formed known as 

 the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club. The club will publish 

 a journal to aid in spreading knowledge of the flora of the region. 

 The officers of the club are, president, F. A. Gilbert, Marshall 

 College, Huntington, W. Va.; vice-president, Randolph Bog- 

 gess, Duke University; secretary, Paul R. Stewart, Waynesburg 

 College; treasurer, Nellie Ammons, West Virginia University; 

 editor. Earl L. Core, West Virginia, University. 



F. A. Varrelman of the American University, Washington, 

 D. C, is spending a year in Europe studying botanical gardens 

 for a sub-committee of the Library Committee of the House of 

 Representatives. The study is undertaken with the idea of mak- 

 ing more complete the plans for a new botanical garden which 

 Congress hopes to develop in Washington. Mr. Varrelman's 

 winter headquarters are at the Botanical Institute of the Bo- 

 tanical Garden of the University of Vienna. 



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