NEWS NOTES 
WE learn from Science that Professor H. S. Jackson, head of 
the department of botany in the Purdue Agricultural Experiment 
Station, resigned on January 1 in order to accept the position of 
professor of mycology and cryptogamic botany in the University 
of Toronto. 
TuHrouGH Dr. Forman T. McLean, President, the Metropoli- 
tan Gladiolus Society announces its annual gladiolus show, to be 
held August 25 and 26, on the main floor of the Grand Central 
Palace, Manhattan. Exhibits will be set up on the previous day, 
August 24. Entries are open to all. 
Miss Marte Reimer, Professor of Chemistry at Barnard Col- 
lege, lectured on March 20 before the Barnard Botanical Club of 
Columbia University on “A Visit to the Botanical Garden at 
Buitenzorg, Java.” In the course of her remarks Miss Reimer 
stated that the Treub Laboratory at the Garden is set apart for 
the use of foreign scientists, who desire to engage in independent 
research. The Garden authorities would welcome American bot- 
anists with such qualifications. 
Miss Exiza FRANCES ANDREWS, of Rome, Georgia, died on 
January 22, at the age of ninety years. Miss Andrews was for a 
time a member of the Club, and was a writer of fiction besides 
being the author of “Botany All the Year Round” (1903) and “A 
Practical Course in Botany” (1911).1 She was an occasional con- 
tributor to Torreya. Another Georgia woman botanist, Mrs. 
Augustus P. Taylor (Elfleda Bennett Taylor) died at Thomasville, 
Ga. on March 12, at the age of sixty-five. Mrs. Taylor was 4 
contributor to one of the early numbers of Torreya and also to 
the Plant World and the Fern Bulletin. 
“THE FLowers or Woopy Pants” is the title of a leaflet 
issued in the series “Cornell Rural School Leaflets”—Vol. 23, No. 
4, as long ago as March, 1930, but of so much interest and value 
to many of our Club members, especially to those who are teach- 
ers of biology, botany, or nature study, that it can not be too 
late to mention it here. The leaflet is written by Eva L. Gordon 
and Paul Kellogg, for boys and girls, and is a pamphlet of 48 
Pages containing illustrations of flowers of many of our trees 
* Reviewed in Torreya 13: 64-66. 
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