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California at Los Angeles, has been chosen president of the 

 Western Society of Naturlists. 



Dr. A. J. Grout, moss specialist, has been appointed to the 

 all-year staff of the Biological Laboratory of the Long Island 

 Biological Association, at Cold Spring Harbor. Dr. Grout has 

 desired to retire from teaching in order to devote his full time to 

 the prepartion and publication of a series of monographs, the 

 first of which has already been published, on the mosses of 

 North America. This summer Dr. Grout will represent the 

 Biological Laboratory at the international Botanical Congress to 

 be held at Cambridge, England. While abroad he will check up 

 type specimens of American mosses located in European 

 museums. 



Professor Charles J. Chamberlain, professor emeritus of 

 botany in the University of Chicago, delivered a lecture on 

 February 1, before the Royal Canadian Institute of Toronto on 

 Tramping through Southern Mexico. He will this spring 

 conduct a lecture course at the LTniversity of California, Los 

 Angeles. 



