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AT its thirty-first annual meeting at Atlantic City, New Jersey on December 20-31, the Botanical Society of America elected the following botanists to be corresponding members: Dr. N. I. Vavilov, director of the State Institute for Experimental Agronomy, Leningrad; Dr. Agnes Arber, sometime fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge; and Dr. Lorenzo R. Parodi, professor of botany in the University of Buenos Aires. The following officers of the Society for 1937 were also elected: President, Prof. Edmund W. Sinnott, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City; Vice-President, Prof. Loren C. Petry, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; Secretary, Prof. George S. Avery, jun., Connecticut College, New London, Conn.; Treasurer, Dr. F. E. Denny, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, N.Y. A new Section for Paleobotany was also organized with the following officers: Chairman, Prof. A. C. Noe, University of Chicago; Secretary, W. C. Darrah, Harvard University.
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Botanical Society of America. Nature 139, 147 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139147d0
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