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society are especially invited to attcnfl this meeting, 

 Aiulitoriuni of Horace Mann School. 

 7 130 p. m. Dinner for all botanists, Motel McAlpin. Address 

 of Professor J. M. Coulter, retiring president of the 



I Botanical Society of America, " Botany as a Na- 



tional Asset." Tickets may be obtained from the 

 secretary, at $2.50 each. 



Friday, December 2Q. 



10:00 a. m. Joint session with the Ecological Society of America, 

 for papers on ecology, phytogeography, and related 

 subjects, Brinckerhoff Theatre. 

 2:00 p. m. Joint session with the American Phytopathological 

 Society, for papers on mycology, plant diseases, etc., 

 Brinckerhoff Theatre. 

 Further information may be obtained from the Secretary of the 



Botanical Society of America, Dr. H. H. Bartlett, 335 Packard 



Street, Ann Arbor, Mich., whose address during the meetings 



will be Hotel McAlpin. 



NEWS ITEMS 



It is reported in the daily papers that Governor N. E. Harris 

 of Georgia has signed a bill to make the Cherokee rose the 

 "official fioral emblem of Georgia." This rose is Rosa laevigata, 

 a native of China. 



The complete collection of Mr. S. B. Parish, comprising about 

 50,000 specimens, has been purchased for the herbarium of 

 Stanford University. 



Professor C. R. Orton, of Pennsylvania State College, is on 

 leave of absence for one year and has registered for graduate 

 work at Columbia University. He will spend some time at the 

 New York Botanical Garden in connection with his researches 

 on parasitic fungi. 



Amherst College has received a bequest of $5,000 to be known 

 as the Edward Tuckerman Fund, for work in botany. 



