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because this was also the name of a fungus. The latter is now 

 changed to Mycosphaerella. 



Arthur H. Graves, 



Secretary. 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Roland M. Harper, whose article on Tallahassee, appears 

 in this issue, is at present in Florida in charge of tabulating the 

 state census. He, of course, manages to do a little botanizing 

 during his spare time. Early in April Dr. Small and Dr. 

 Wherry on their auto trip from Miami to El Paso stopped for a 

 day's visit with Dr. Harper. Later Prof. L. H. Bailey stopped 

 at Tallahassee and did some collecting of species of Rubus in 

 the neighborhood. Prof. P. H. Rolfs, home for a visit between 

 engagements in Brazil, was also a visitor. 



On the 2 1st of May five busts were unveiled at the Hall of 

 Fame, New York University. Among these was one of Dr. 

 Asa Gray, the gift of The Gray Herbarium, Harvard and friends 

 and relatives of Dr. Gray. Professor Benjamin L. Robinson, 

 curator of the herbarium made an address and a tribute by 

 President Eliot was given by phonofilm. In the tribute Dr. Eliot 

 said "His reputation at home and abroad was much larger than 

 that of a botanical specialist. He was recognized as a clear 

 thinker and strong writer on philosophical and religious themes. 

 Asa Gray enjoyed the satisfaction of having rendered a great and 

 lasting service to his countrymen and to mankind. He knew 

 that he had done much to diffuse among his countrymen a 

 knowledge of botany and a love for it." 



During the last of June a two-weeks school of Nursery Fruit 

 Tree Identification was held at Geneva. The course was de- 

 signed to enable horticulturists to recognize the varieties of cul- 

 tivated fruit trees at any time of year. 



Dr. Susan P. Nichols, Associate Professor of Botany at Oberlin 

 College, has been spending part of a sabbatical year in research 

 at the botanical laboratory of Columbia University, continuing 

 her investigation on the reactions of plant cells to wounds. 



