NEWS NOTES 
Dr. C. H. KaurrMan, Emeritus Professor of Botany and 
Emeritus Director of the University Herbarium of the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, died at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 
the morning of June 14 after an illness of sixteen months as a 
result of a paralytic stroke in February, 1930. He was sixty-two 
years of age. 
Dr. Per AXEL RYDBERG, Curator of the Herbarium of 
the New York Botanical Garden, died at the age of seventy- 
one years, on July 25th, at his home in the Bronx, New York 
City. Although an American citizen, Dr. Rydberg was a native 
of Sweden. He had been a member of the club for many years. 
Dr. GEORGE SHERMAN AVERY JR., who during the past 
year has been on leave from Duke University and has held a 
National Research Fellowship in botany at Columbia Univer- 
sity, has resigned his position as Assistant Professor of Botany 
at Duke and accepted the appointment to a professorship of 
botany at Connecticut College, New London, Conn. Miss Julia 
Best, Barnard College, 1931, has been appointed instructor in 
botany at the same institution. 
ACCORDING to a recent ruling of the Board of Examiners for 
the New York City schools, those who wish to obtain teaching 
licenses in biology in the New York City schools must give evr 
dence of an acquaintance with the common trees, shrubs, herbs, 
birds and other animals of the region about New York. A list 
of the common trees and shrubs of Greater New York has been 
prepared by Dr. A. H. Graves, and a list of the common her- 
baceous plants by Dr. H. K. Svenson—each list appearing as 
an issue of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden LEAFLETS. These lists 
may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, and are 
‘mailed free to teachers in Greater New York. 
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