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Galapagos Islands, stating that about one-third of the species 

 are endemic, and that the others occur in Central America and 

 northern South America. 



Marshall A. Howe, 



Secretary. 



NEWS NOTES 



The Wild Flower Preservation Society of America distributed 

 during the holiday season leaflets on the preservation of the 

 plants used as Christmas greens. The balsam tree is recom- 

 mended for Christmas trees. The statement is made that six 

 hundred years of Holly life is extinguished in one puny "3x2x2 

 ft. florist's box." The society also prepared stickers in red and 

 green for envelopes with the message HOLLY AND LAUREL 

 are fast disappearing, use substitutes. 



Dr. J. Arthur Harris, who for a number of years has been a 

 member of the staff of the Station for Experimental Evolution 

 of the Carnegie Institution at Cold Spring Harbor, and a member 

 of the editorial board of the Torrey Botanical Club, has been 

 elected Professor of Botany and Head of the Department of 

 Botany of the University of Minnesota. He expects to take up 

 his new duties in September of the present year. 



Dr. William Crocker, Director of the Boyce Thompson Institute 

 of Plant Research of Yonkers, N. Y., has been elected President 

 of the Botanical Society of America. Dr. A. F. Blakeslee of the 

 Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, 

 N. Y., is the new Vice-president of the Society. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton left New York on January 26th 

 for a two months' visit to Porto Rico, where they will continue 

 their investigations of the Flora of Porto Rico and the Virgin 

 Islands. 



