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advancement of knowledge of the plants and crops of the tropics; 

 to conduct investigations in plant pathology, entomology, plant 

 breeding, botany and forestry, horticulture, and agronomy, and 

 to publish the results thereof; and to establish and maintain such 

 temporary or permanent stations and laboratories as may be 

 necessary for the accomplishment of these objects, under the 

 restrictions and regulations established in its by-laws." 



The central office of the Foundation is in Washington. The 

 laboratory headquarters in the United States will be at the 

 Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, New 

 York, where the facilities for this type of work are unexcelled. 



Ezra Brainerd, President Emeritus of Middlebury College, 

 a recognized authority on the violets of North America, died at 

 his home in Middlebury, Vt. on December 8th, at the age of 

 eighty. President Brainerd was the author of the Flora of 

 Vermont, of The Violets of North America and of many other 

 botanical articles. His last publication, Violet Hybrids, ap- 

 peared only a few months before his death. He contributed 

 various papers to the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club as 

 well as to other botanical magazines. 



At the Washington meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, Dr. M. I. Pupin, Professor of 

 Electro-mechanics at Columbia University, was elected president 

 for the coming year. Professor R. B. Wylie of the State Univer- 

 sity of Iowa was elected vice-president to represent the Botan- 

 ical Section, and S. F. Trelease, Professor of Plant Physiology 

 at the University of Louisville, was elected secretary of the Bot- 

 tanical Section. 



The Bennington National Forest, near Columbus, Ga. has 

 been created by proclamation of the President. The area was 

 turned over by the War Department, having been included in 

 the military reservation there. The forest service expects to 

 develop the excellent stand of Southern pine on the area and to 

 derive an income from it at the same time. Other army reser- 

 vations created during the war may also be turned over for 

 national forests. 



Dr. William A. Murrill, after twenty years on the staff of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, has resigned and is now at Gaines- 

 ville, Fla. At the time of his resignation Dr. Murrill was Super- 

 visor of Public Instruction at the Garden. 



