NEWS NOTES 



The 1937 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture is a 

 continuation of that of 1936 with 45 articles on genetics and 

 breeding of plants and animals. In announcing the publication 

 of the yearbook Secretary Wallace says "In sending out this 

 second and last of the two Yearbooks on genetics and breeding 

 I would not want anyone to think that they complete the ac- 

 count of the efforts of plant and animal breeders in the United 

 States. On the contrary I would wish these Yearbooks to be 

 looked on as pointing the way toward a field of activity that 

 will accomplish much more in the future than has been accom- 

 plished in the past." "If genetics enables us to outdo nature's 

 own efforts it is because it is in the truest sense a science of 

 cooperation with nature." "Alan's control of his own future 

 may depend in the long run on whether his biological knowl- 

 edge, which is constructive, can catch up with his knowledge 

 of the physical sciences, which has taught him so much about 

 how to destroy." 



A botanical garden and arboretum at Huntington College, 

 Indiana was dedicated on the twelfth of June. Together they 

 comprise some 43 acres, most of it already wooded. It is planned 

 to have all plants native of the region growing in the garden, 

 arranged as far as possible by families. The arboretum is to 

 contain all species of woody plants of the state. The two are to 

 be named for Dr. Frederick A. Loew who has made the plans 

 and begun the development. 



Dr. Ellsworth P. Killip of the United States National Her- 

 barium, has been authorized by an act of Congress to accept 

 the award of Chavalier of the French Legion of Honor, re- 

 cently conferred on him by the French Government. 



Dr. Margaret C. Ferguson, research professor of botany at 

 Wellesley College, was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor 

 of Science at the centennial celebration of Mount Holyoke Col- 

 lege this spring. 



Dr. Walter Robyns, professor of botany at the University 

 of Brussels and director of the Royal Botanical Garden and of 

 the National Herbarium, arrived in New York for a visit on 

 August 9. He was welcomed by a dinner attended by the bota- 

 nists of the New York area at the Columbia Faculty Club on 



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