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Colombia. Dr. Archer has taught and done research work at 

 New Mexico State Agricultural College, the University of 

 Michigan and Oberlin College. With Dr. Archer went Mr. 

 Charles H. Ballou as entomologist. Mr. Ballou has been 

 technical assistant in the Japanese Beetle Control Laboratory 

 at Moorestown, N. J. (Science) 



Dr. Caroline A. Black, Chairman of the department of 

 botany of Connecticut College, died on January 19 at Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio. She was taken ill while returning from the Des 

 Moines meeting of the Association for the Advancement of 

 Science. (Science) 



I was interested in the note in Torreya, Vol. 29, No. 6, 

 Page 152, on Aconitiim noveboracense, by H. A. Gleason and 

 Wm. J. Bonisteel, referring to the large colony on the Beaver- 

 kill, in the southwestern Catskills. May I report another 

 station, where I saw at least twenty flowering plants, and where 

 there are probably more. This was on a brook on the north 

 slope of Doubletop Mountain, about five or six miles east 

 northeast of the Beaverkill station. On a climbing and camping 

 trip in th'e southwestern Catskills, in July, 1923, with Harold 

 F. Scutt of Douglaston, L. I., we made camp at the highest 

 water on a little stream on the north side of Doubletop, about 

 dark and in getting ready for the night did not observe the 

 plants about us closely. But in the morning, going to the 

 stream for water, I saw a group of this species of Monkshood, 

 with flowers and fruit. The altitude was about 2800 feet. 

 Further down the stream were more plants. This brook is a 

 tributary of Dry Brook, which enters the east branch of the 

 Delaware (to which Beaverkill is also tributary) at Arkville. 



Raymond H. Torrey 



Back numbers of Torreya wanted. In order to make up 

 complete sets we need a few complete copies of volumes 27 

 and 29 and additional copies of Vol. 27, number 2 and Vol. 29, 

 number 1. If members have these volumes or the seperate 

 numbers they are willing to send to Dr. Marshall A. Howe, 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York the club 

 will be glad to pay $2.00 each for the complete volumes or 

 50 cents for the numbers especially wanted. 



