Before World War Two I used to visit the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania every year with regularity, staying at the family summer home at Bear Lake in Lackawanna County.
Before World War Two I used to visit the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania every year with regularity, staying at the family summer home at Bear Lake in Lackawanna County.
Another survey of the flora of Somerset County by the writer during 1963 has yielded ten new species to the records of Carnegie Museum Herbarium. Field studies were limited mainly to the northern area which has not been botanized as thoroughly as the southern half of the county.
“Compound Trees,” by Roland M. Harper, appeared in Journal of the Alabama Academy of Sciences, vol. 33, pp. 101-109. “April, 1962” (January, 1964).
A member of the staff of De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, since 1919, died January 8, 1964. He was born at Carson City, Michigan, March 20, 1891. He was widely known for his studies of Cuscuta and the Piperaceae.
Four new titles in The General Chemistry Monograph Series, published recently (1963) by W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 2465 Broadway, New York City, are of interest to biologists. These include The Structure of Molecules, by Gordon M. Barrow; The Shape of Carbon Compounds, by Werner Herz; How Chemical Reactions Occur, by Edward L. King; and Elementary Chemical Thermodynamics, by Bruce H. Mahan.
Interdisciplinary studies are oftentimes troublesome matters, as today’s scientist seems to feel that his own field is “the field” for which all others exist. This book, done by a Committee of the National Research Council, is an avowed attempt to present “a compound of data, of ideas, and of conclusions,” i.e., to show that interdisciplinary studies have tremendous value and impact on the various fields, related by them.
A book designed to aid the beginner in Biological Research, this text should be read by every graduate student and research-minded Biology majors. As in all generalized books, there are some errors in this book, but the overall tenor of it is very good. Dr. Van Norman has used his several years of experience in this field for a background, and a course in Experimental Biology as a testing area, to come up with a very lucid and informative text.
The death of Dr. O. E. Jennings on January 29, 1964, resulting from a stroke suffered that morning, has deprived the scientific world of a devoted natural scientist and distinguished educator. He not only had a thorough foundation in botany but also a wide knowledge of paleobotany, zoology, geology, and ecology.
Harry W. Trudell, one of the original members of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club, was born in Richmond, Virginia, May 2, 1879, but came to Philadelphia, Pa., as a youth. Becoming an accountant, he was employed here for many years by a large leather firm, and rose to the position of Secretary, retiring in 1940. He never married, but lived at the home of a sister, Mrs. George Tongue, in northeast Philadelphia and later in the suburb of Abington. By way of recreation he spent his free time in the outdoors, and became an enthusiastic amateur botanist as well as mineralogist. He joined the Philadelphia Botanical Club in 1915, and served as its President in 1924, Secretary 1927, Vice-President 1932 to 1945, and Treasurer from 1947 on, resigning only when ill-health necessitated. He was similarly active in local mineralogical organizations.
This report deals with the monocotyledonous plant, Butomus umbellatus L. bearing the common name of Flowering Rush. The author discovered this plant in the hydraulic canal, an arm off the Elkhart River at the edge of the city of Goshen, Elkhart County, Indiana on July 4, 1952. The plants were in full bloom, growing in shallow water along the bank, in pure stands and in some places in association with Sagittaria latifolia, Sparganium androcladum and the Reed-Canary Grass, Phalaris arundinacea. The presence of Butomus was noted in this situation through the past 12 summers. Observations made the past summer of 1963 revealed that these plants were growing at many points along the length of the canal as well as in the main part of the river, both above the source of the canal and below the mouth where the canal returns to the river. The entire distance of river and canal along which colonies of this species were found is over 3 miles. The species seems to be well established here and should be considered a new addition to the flora of Indiana.