NEWS NOTES 



Indoor Meetings to be Arranged by the 

 Field Committee 



With the approval of the President of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club, and of the Chairman of the program committee, the field 

 committee plans to hold a number of indoor meetings in the 

 spring and fall of 1937, to discuss subjects of chief interest to 

 those who enjoy the field trips, which may be classed under the 

 general title of "floristics," including taxonomy, ecology, plant 

 distribution, etc. Since it was felt by the program committee 

 that the professional botanists in the club are interested in other 

 phases of botany, at the regular indoor meetings, and since there 

 was evidence of a demand for taxonomy, ecology, etc., on the 

 part of a number of amateur botanists, and active leaders of 

 fields trips, the field committee proposed to Dr. Barnhart and 

 obtained his approval, for the experiment of holding another 

 series of meetings for the presentation and discussion of sub- 

 jects of that sort. 



It is planned to hold these meetings on the second or third 

 Mondays of spring and fall months, Mondays being chosen be- 

 cause many members will have been in the field the day before 

 and will have collected fresh material to bring in for determination 

 and discussion. It is expected that meeting places will be found, 

 at the American Museum of Natural History, at Columbia Uni- 

 versity, at the Newark Museum, Newark, N. J.; possibly also 

 at the building of the Horticultural Society of New York, and 

 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Some dates, places and sub- 

 jects will be announced in the field schedule booklet, when it 

 appears about April 10; others may be left until fall, for perfec- 

 tion of their programs. Announcements will also appear in the 

 bulletin of the New York Academy of Sciences. This new series 

 of indoor meetings is an experiment, to be given a trial during 

 1937, and the response to and success of the gatherings will de- 

 termine whether they should be continued. 



Raymond H. Torrey 



Dr. Duncan Star Johnson, since 1906 professor of botany 

 and director of the botanical garden at the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, died on February 16 at the age of sixty-nine years. 



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