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August 11. During his \'isit to this country he is visiting botani- 

 cal gardens and museums as well as many of our national parks. 

 His trij) lakes him as far as Hawaii. 



Dr. Nathaniel L. Gardner died on August 15 at Berkeley, 

 California, at the age of 73. Dr. Gardiner was an authority on 

 the water plants of the Pacific Coast. He was emeritus curator 

 and professor of botany at the University of California, with 

 which institution he had been connected for 30 years. 



Dr. X'ernon Kellogg died at Hartford, Conn, on August 8 at 

 the age of 69. Dr. Kellogg was professor of biology at Leland 

 Stanford l/niversity for nearly twenty-five years, helped with 

 Belgian Relief under Herbert Hoover, and was permanent secre- 

 tary of the National Research Council from 1919 until his resig- 

 nation in 1932. 



Dr. George Perkins Clinton, botanist at the Connecticut 

 Agricultural Experiment Station until his retirement the first 

 of last July, died on August 13 at the age of 71. 



Dr. Charles Beach Atwell, emeritus professor of botany at 

 Northwestern University, died on September 14 at the age of 

 eighty-two years. Dr. Atwell, a graduate of Syracuse University, 

 joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1880 and re- 

 tired in 1928. 



Dr. Edward H. Graham, formerly assistant curator of 

 botany at the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, has become bi- 

 ologist in the Section of Wildlife Management of the Soil Con- 

 servation Service, Washington, D. C. 



A large collection of mammals, birds, reptiles and plants of 

 Panama have been brought to the U. S. National Museum by Dr. 

 Gerrit S. Miller, Jr. By accompanying Army engineers who were 

 cutting new roads through the jungle he was enabled to secure 

 a large number of epiphytes that were growing on the tops of 

 tall trees. 



Dr. A. C. Smith, Associate Curator of the New^ York Botan- 

 ical Garden, sailed on Aug. 27 with the Holden expedition of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. The expedition has for 

 its primary object the studying of diseases and drugs of the 

 Indian tribes along the northern tributaries of the Amazon 

 River. The expedition w^ill also collect reptiles, amphibians, 



