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Professor John W. Harshberger has been elected president of 

 the Philadelphia Natural History Society, which holds its meetings 

 at the Wagner Free Institute of Science, and at the last annual 

 meeting of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association, held on De- 

 cember 9, he was elected a member of Council from Philadelphia 

 County. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of McGill University, has been 

 elected a corresponding member of the Centro de Sciencias, 

 Letras, e Artes, Campinas, S. Paulo, Brazil, especially in recog- 

 nition of his work on the desert rubber plant, guayule. 



Professor Raymond J. Pool, of the University of Nebraska, 

 spent fourteen weeks of last summer in continuing his studies of 

 the vegetation of the sandhills of Nebraska. This region covers 

 about 20,000 square miles to the north and west of the center 

 of the state. The soil is dune sand and the topography is 

 that of a typical dune area. The vegetation is primarily that 

 of the prairie-grass formation, but there are associations of 

 other unique character in addition to some of the commoner 

 ones typical of the prairies farther east. In addition to the 

 ecological work done about 2,000 specimens were collected for 

 the Herbarium of the Nebraska Botanical Survey. 



The attention of members of the Club is called to the annual 

 meeting to be held on the evening of Tuesday, the fourteenth of 

 January, at the American Museum of Natural History. At 

 that time the reports of retiring ofiicers will be read and an election 

 of new officers for 191 3 will be held. It is expected that the 

 committee appointed to suggest botanists eligible to honorary 

 membership in the Club, will report at this meeting. 



Dr. Carl L. Alsberg, chemical biologist of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, has been appointed chief of the Bureau of Chemistry 

 in succession to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. 



Five members of the botanical staff at the Ohio Experiment 

 Station resigned on December 4, the resignations taking effect on 

 December 7. Those who resigned were E. G. Arzberger, J. B. 

 Demaree, L. E. Melchus, J. T. Rogers, and H. R. Watts. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick, who has been continuing his studies of 



