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which has not been permitted to interfere with the accnracy of 

 the drawing. Among the subjects of especial exceUence may be 

 mentioned the Mariposa tuhps. CaHfornia poppy, wild pansy, 

 and wild heliotrope. The book is a charming gift and an excel- 

 lent souvenir of California's floral charms. C. L. P. 



PERSONALS. 



Dr. Daniel T. MacDougal, formerly assistant director of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, has accepted the position of Director 

 of Botanical Research in the Carnegie Institution. Dr. ^lac- 

 Dougal is now at the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion at Tucson, Arizona, where he will remain for the rest of the 

 winter. 



Tucson is to become the residence, also, of two of the Board of 

 Editors of the Plant World. Professor Francis E. Lloyd has 

 resigned from the Teachers College, Columbia University, to 

 accept a position on the Research Staff of the Desert Laboratory. 

 Professor Lloyd will, however, continue to be editor and pub- 

 fisher of this magazine. 



Dr. Burton E. Livingston, recently of the Bureau of Soils, U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture, whose valuable article on " A 

 Simple Method for Experiments with Water Cultures " appears 

 in this number of the Plant World, is now a member of the 

 Staff of the Desert Botanical Laboratory. 



Dr. C. S. Gager, who edits the department for teachers in the 

 Plant World, has resigned his position as instructor in biology 

 in the Morris High School, New York City, to become Director of 

 the Laboratories of the New York Botanical Garden. 



