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turn to Stanford University. Prof. Dudley has spent the last' 

 year in Europe and Egypt ; Dr. Lawson has been studying in 

 Europe. 



Prof. LeBoij Abrams and Dr. 11. B. IlumpJirci/ have been 

 engaged l)y the Case Publishing Co., of ]\linneapolis, as critical 

 experts on their forthcoming extensive and popular publication 

 concerning Luther Burbank and his work. 



.4^ the University of NehraslxH. Dr. Klda P. Walker has 

 been promoted from the Tnstruetorship to the Adjunct Professor- 

 ship of Botany. After holding a teaching fellowshi]) in the 

 University for two years, ^Miss Walker has held the Instructor- 

 ship for one year. Her doctor's thesis was a report of w(n-k de- 

 termining the tricarpellary nature of the pistils of grasses, and 

 was published in the T^niversity of Xebraska Studies, Vol. VI., 

 ^o. 3, 1906. Mr. Pool is a Bachelor of Arts of the University 

 of Nebraska, and has been for three years Collector for the De- 

 partment of Botany." He spent last summer in ecological work 

 with Dr. Clements in the reii'ion of Pike's Peak. He is now en- 

 gaged in similar work with Dr. Clements' party in different por- 

 tions of Colorado. 



Dr. Otis ir. CohlirrJJ. recently Professor of Botany of the 

 Eastern Illinois State Xornial Scho(»l, has been a])pointed Asso- 

 ciate Professor of Botany in the University of Chicago. He 

 will give certain courses in the University and will have charge 

 of the work in Xatnre Stu<ly in the Scliool of Education. 



Dr. Edgar X. Tran.'^eau, of the Station for Experimental 

 Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, has accepted the 

 Professorship of Botany in the Eastern Illinois State Xornial 

 School, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. Caldwell. 



Dr. II. C. Coirtes. of tlic University of Chicago, is spending 

 the tirst half of the sunnner with a party of twenty-two students 

 in ecological work in Washington and British Columbia. The 

 same party will spend the remainder of the season in Alaska. 



Dr. J. E. Coit, of Cornell University, has been appointed 

 Associate Llorticulturist at the Arizona Experiment Station. 



