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Delegate to the Council of the New York Academy of Sciences — 



Dr. M. A. Howe 

 Representatives on Council of A. A. A. S. — Dr. R. A. Harper 



and Dr. B. O. Dodge 



The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 p.m. and refreshments 

 were served in the Bird Hall by the refreshment committee. 



Respectfully submitted, 

 FoRMAN T. McLean 



Secretary 



NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Henry Knute Svenson, formerly of the editorial staff of 

 Biological Abstracts has taken the position of Curator of Plants 

 at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 



Dr. George M. Reed of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has 

 prepared an interesting series of exhibition cases showing varie- 

 ties of grains and of types of corn and of hybrids of corn and 

 of sorghum, the latter with the two parents and the cross 

 between them. These have gone to the high schools of New York 

 where advanced biology is taught. 



Dr. Bernard O. Dodge, of the New York Botanical Garden 

 was among the experts who helped plan a method of preserving 

 a series of paintings in the administration building of the Pan- 

 ama Canal at Balboa. The paintings had been attacked by mold 

 which threatened to destroy them. They have now been coated 

 with a thin film of paraffine wax which gives promise of perma- 

 nent preservation. 



Dr. J. C. Arthur, professor emeritus of botany at Purdue 

 University, celebrated his eightieth birthday on January 11. 

 At a luncheon held in his honor Dr. Arthur gave an account of 

 the development of the department from its founding in 1888. 

 Dr. Arthur was head of the department from the time of its 

 founding to his retirment in 1915. He has been actively en- 

 gaged in a study of rusts since his retirement and has just 

 published a book entitled "Plant Rusts." (Science) 



Dr. William A. Archer recently resigned from the OfBce of 

 Plant Disease Survey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 and began work on January 15th as professor of plant pathology 

 in the School of Agriculture and Veterinary Science at Medellin, 



