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the "School in the Forest" can be obtained from Miss Esther 

 W. Eno, the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 



The Pennsylvania State College Nature Camp, suspended 

 for the past two years due to the occupancy of the camp site in 

 the Tussey or Seven Sister Mountains by a C.C.C. camp, will 

 be reopened this summer for two three-week sessions. Either of 

 the sessions grants six college credits. Information can be ob- 

 tained from Professor George R. Green, The Pennsylvania 

 State College, State College, Pa. 



Of interest to science and industry is the establishment of 

 Cinchona Products Institute Inc. at 270 Madison Avenue, New 

 York. It will promote and foster medical and industrial research 

 in the use and application of Cinchona products, both quinine 

 and the other alkaloids. The director of the Institute is Norman 

 Taylor, formerly of the New York Botanical Garden and 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



Dr. Liberty Hyde Bailey, emeritus professor of agriculture 

 at Cornell University, is in Haiti studying and making collec- 

 tions of palms. As collected by Dr. Bailey the herbarium 

 material of a single species may include a dozen or more pieces 

 of a leaf cut so as to show at least half of a leaf that may be ten 

 feet or more long, flowering and fruiting branches, mature 

 fruit and a section of the trunk. 



The Brooklyn Botanic Garden received a gold medal, a 

 special cash prize award of merit from the Garden Club of 

 America at the 24th International Flower Show held in New 

 York from March 15 to 20. The exhibit showed xerophytic 

 plants and their adaptations to meet the desert conditions under 

 which they live. 



Dr. William Crocker, director of the Boyce Thompson Insti- 

 tute, has been elected president of the Board of Education of 

 Yonkers. 



