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NEWS ITEMS 



Edward Valentine Hallock, president of the Society of Amer- 

 ican Florists, died March 3, 1909, at his Long Island home. 



The University of Michigan has recently received a gift of ninety 

 acres of land to be used as a*botanical garden and arboretum. 



In the departments of biology, L. L. Woodruff, of Yale, has 

 been promoted to assistant professor, and R. W. Hall, of Lehigh, 

 to full professor. 



Mr. Patrick H. Lawlor, a well-known arboriculturist died 

 recently at Flushing, Long Island. Many of our rare shade trees 

 were first imported by Mr. Lawlor. 



M. Louis Mangin has been made a member of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences, in the section of botany, succeeding M. Van Tieghem, 

 who has been elected permanent secretary. 



The new chief of the Bureau of General Statistics and Agri- 

 cultural Information in the International Institute at Rome is Dr. 

 C. C. Clark, of the United States Department of Agriculture. 



Further cooperation is planned between the government and 

 the University of Wisconsin. This will include the cultivation of 

 medicinal plants including related investigation and research work. 



Since Dr. George H. Shull's return from Europe, where he 

 was studying scientific and economic plant breeding, he has gone 

 to California to resume his work on Mr. Burbank's methods and 

 results. 



As the result of the North American Conference on the Con- 

 servation of Natural Resources, held in Washington last week, 

 all nations are to be asked to send delegates to an international 

 conference on conservation, to be held at The Hague. 



The fifth summer school session of the University of Washing- 

 ton, opens June 22, at Friday Harbor, Washington. Courses 

 are offered in elementary and in field botany. The tuition fee is 

 but $13, making the entire charges for board, etc., for the six 

 weeks only $45. 



The Station for Research at Agar's Island, Bermuda, will be 

 open for about seven weeks this summer. There are accommo- 



