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...Edgar Anderson spent the summer of 1934 in the Balkans for the purpose of collecting plants and seeds in Bulgaria, Roumania, and Yugo-Slavia. The climate of the Balkan region resembles closely the climate of Boston and it seemed probable that the Balkan strains of such plants as Ivy, Yew, and Box, coming from a climate similar to ours would prove more adsptable here than the more or less tender strains that have already been imported from northern Europe...
Outside the United States, Canada leads with 47 students, followed by China, 27; England, 21; Hawaii, 19; France, 11; Puerto Rico, 8; Germany, 8; Mexico, 7; Belgium, 4; and Turkey, 4. Other countries, Colombia, Estonia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, Alaska, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, India, Ireland, Lithuania, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Philippine Islands, Santo Domingo, Scotland, Siam, Spain, Straits Settlements, Sweden, South Africa, Roumania, and Syria...
More than 15,000 duplicate specimens were exchanged during the past year by the Gray Herbarium with active herbaris in the United States and Canada and with institutions in Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland...
During intermission at a Vienna Philharmonic concert old ex-Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria shuffled backstage to congratulate Conductor Arturo Toscanini, received word that the maestro was relaxing. Thinking that there had been some mistake, Ferdinand announced himself again, this time more distinctly. By messenger Toscanini replied: "Not even for a King can I break my rule of seeing nobody during a concert." To the vast delight of its owner, its maker and its chauffeur, an old Crane Simplex automobile purred smoothly over its 278,000th mile in Manhattan." The good old car is still going strong." bubbled Owner Herbert Livingston...
Tsar Boris, addressing an Army review as scheduled, cried grandiloquently: "Bulgaria must remain an independent country, for which the Army is the principal guarantee as long as it remains true to the spirit of its ancestors...