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NEWS NOTES 



On October 15, Ernest Henry Wilson, Director of the 

 Arnold Arboretum and his wife were killed when his auto- 

 mobile skidded and plunged down an embankment near Wor- 

 cester, Mass. Mr. Wilson was often known as "Chinese" 

 Wilson because of his many visits to China in search of plants. 

 Professor Sargent under whom Mr. Wilson served when the 

 former was director of the arboretum, termed Mr. Wilson the 

 ablest collector of trees and shrubs in the world. 



International Botanical Address Book 

 At the final plenary meeting of the Fifth International 

 Botanical Congress, Cambridge, England, August 23, 1930, it 

 was unanimously resolved that an international address book 

 of botanists should be prepared and published. A committee 

 consisting of Professor L. Diels, Director of the Botanic 

 Gardens, Berlin-Dahlem; Dr. E. D. Merrill, Director of The 

 New York Botanical Garden; and Dr. T. F. Chipp, Assistant 

 Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, was 

 appointed to consummate the project. 



The last publication of its kind, Dorfler's Botaniker Address- 

 buch, was published in 1909; the need of an up-to-date publi- 

 cation has been increasingly felt in late years, with the rapid 

 growth of botanical science and the necessity for more general 

 communication and cooperation among botanists in different 

 parts of the world. 



Dorfler's address book had about 12,500 entries. It is esti- 

 mated that a comprehensive new address book will contain in 

 excess of 20,000 entries. To make it reasonably complete the 

 cooperation of botanists everywhere is desired. Will individuals 

 who desire their names to appear in the new botanical address 

 book send me a post card giving the data required. What is 

 needed in each case is the name and initials of the individual, his 

 or her address, degrees and titles, position, and special field of 

 interest. Please compile the data on an ordinary post card, in 

 typewriting if possible, and send it to the undersigned; all such 

 supplementary data will be collated with those supplied by the 

 selected collaborators, before transmission to Dr. Chipp at Kew. 



E. D. Merrill 

 New York Botanical Garden, 

 Bronx Park, New York 



