214 THE PLANT WORLD. 



Prof. William L. Bray has resigned the professorship of 

 botany in the University of Texas to accept the newly created 

 chair of botany in Syracuse University. 



Dr. Harold F. Lyon, of the Botanical Department of the 

 University of Minnesota, has gone to Honolulu to accept a posi- 

 tion with the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. 



Mr. E. E. Free, of the Arizona Experiment Station, has 

 been appointed to a position on the staff of the Bureau of Soils 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. He will have his 

 headquarters in Washington. 



Mr. W. H. Boss, of the Chemical Department of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago, who has held a research fellowship of the 

 Royal Society of London for three years, has become Assistant 

 Chemist at the Ariziona Experiment Station. 



lite Mississippi Valley Laboratory of the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has been abol- 

 ished, and the work in forest pathology will now be carried on by 

 the Laboratory of Forest Pathology, of the Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry. This new laboratory wall be located in Washington, and 

 is under the direction of Dr. Haven Metcalf. Associated with 

 Dr. Metcalf are Drs. George G. Hedgecock and Perley Spauld- 

 ing, both formerly of the abolished Laboratory. Dr. Spaulding 

 is at present at the New York State Forestry JSTursery, Saranac 

 Inn, N. Y., working upon a serious damping-off disease. 



Frof. Francis E. Lloyd has taken up the work of his new 

 position as Director of Investigation to the Inter-Continental 

 Rubber Co., of Jersey City. ]^. J. He will have charge of in- 

 vestigations ujDon useful plants. Lie may be addressed at 

 Hacienda de Cedros, Mazapil, Zacatecas, where the Laboratory 

 of the Continental-Mexican Division is to be established. 



Frof J. E. Kirhwood has relinquished the chair of Botany 

 in Syracuse University, and has accepted the position of Assist- 

 ant Botanist to the same company. He may also be addressed 

 at Hacienda de Cedros. 



