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spathe to the top of the spadix. The spathe was about four feet 

 in diameter, chocolate color inside, mottled green on the out- 

 side, a flaring funnel, from the center of which stood up the pale 

 yellow spadix. During the time it was in blossom the green- 

 houses were closed to the public, but hundreds of visitors, at- 

 tracted by the articles in the daily papers, crowded around to 

 view it from outside. The Krubi is a native of Sumatra and is 

 said to have blossomed only five times before away from its 

 native home. 



Pere Artheme Dutilly, of the Oblate Mission, after four 

 years spent along the northern shores of Canada, Labrador, 

 Baffin Land and up the Mackenzie and Great Slave rivers, 

 "came out" to work over his collections of plants last winter 

 and spring at the Catholic University of America in Washing- 

 ton. He has now gone back to the region about the north end of 

 Hudson Bay for further study of the plant life. He plans a book 

 on the ecology of plants of the Arctic. Among the interesting 

 things he has noted is that arctic plants tend to be purple rather 

 than green and that the depth of the purple color seems to in- 

 crease the further north the plants grow. (Science) 



Dr. Elmer D. Merrill of Harvard University has been elected 

 president of the Executive Committee of the International 

 Union of Biological Sciences, succeeding Sir Albert Seward, 

 Professor of Botany at Cambridge University. 



Dr. Ulysses P. Hedrick, director of the New York State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y., has resigned, 

 the resignation to take effect On his sixty-eighth birthday next 

 January 15. He has been a member of the station staff for more 

 than thirty years and director since 1928. 



