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The Grande Medaille a I'effigie d'Isidore Geoffrey St. Hilaire 

 has been awarded by the Societe Nationale d'Acclimatation de 

 France to Sir Arthur Hill, Director of the Royal Botanic Gar- 

 dens, Kew, and to Dr. V. Van Straelen director of the Royal 

 Museum of Natural History Brussels. 



John F. Preston, forester for the Hammermill Paper Com- 

 pany, Erie, Pa., has been named head of the woodland manage- 

 ment section of the Soil Conservation Service. Mr. Preston, will 

 supervise the forestry and woodland phases of the soil erosion 

 control program now being carried on in 141 demonstration 

 areas and more than 450 CCC camps throughout the country. 

 He also will maintain cooperation with the Forest Service and 

 other agencies interested in woodland work. 



Dr. Edmund W. Sinnott, Professor of Botany at Columbia 

 University, has been elected a member of the National Academy 

 of Sciences. Among the fifteen scientists elected this year, Dr. 

 Sinnott is the only botanist. 



The western summer meeting of the Botanical Society of 

 America will be held at the University of Wyoming Camp after 

 the close of the Camp School on July 27. Information can be se- 

 cured from Dr. Aven Nelson, chairman of the local committee, 

 Laramie, Wyo. 



Professor M. T. Munn has been put in charge of a new re- 

 search division established at the New York State Experiment 

 Station at Geneva. The new division is known as the Division 

 of Seed Investigation and will have charge of seed inspection 

 and of research into the physiology of germination, the problems 

 of seed-borne diseases, and other problems connected with the 

 growth of seeds. 



Dr. Elmer D. Merrill, director of the botanical units of Har- 

 vard University, and formerly director of the New York Botani- 

 cal Garden has been elected an honorary member of the Bo- 

 tanical Society of Japan. Dr. Merrill was also awarded the 

 honorary degree of LL.D. by the University of California at 

 the commencement this spring. ' 



Mr. Henry Teuscher, dendrologist at the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden for the past three years, has been made super- 

 intendent and horticulturist of the new Botanical Garden of 

 Montreal, Canada. 



