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Dr. Horace David Arnold has been appointed dean of the Grad- 

 uate School of Medicine of Harvard University. The graduate 

 school of medicine is a new department of the university, and is 

 under the Jurisdiction of the faculty of medicine. (See page 500.) 



Frederick H. Blodgett, Ph.D. (Hopkins, '10), acting professor 

 of biology and geology, has resigned from Roanoke College and 

 assumed the duties of plant pathologist and physiologist at the 

 Texas Experiment Station, College Station, Texas, on February i. 

 The work interrupted by the sudden death of Dr. Raymond H. 

 Pond last summer (pages 146 and 354) will be resumed and some 

 additional attention paid to plant diseases. 



Dr. Rupert Blue, of South Carolina, has been appointed surgeon 

 general of the public health and marine hospital service, succeeding 

 the late Dr. Walter Wyman. 



Dr. Fingerling, of the Agricultural School at Hohenheim, has 

 been elected director of the Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Möckern. 



Dr. C. N. Jensen, fellow in plant pathology, Cornell University, 

 has been appointed professor of botany and plant pathology in Utah 

 Agricultural College and Experiment Station. 



Dr. George T. Moore, professor of plant physiology at the Shaw 

 School of Botany, and until recently plant physiologist at the Mis- 

 souri Botanical Garden, has been appointed director of the Garden 

 to succeed Dr. William Trelease. 



A bacteriological department of the Berlin pathological Institute 

 has been formed, and Professor Morgenroth, a pupil of Ehrlich, 

 has been named as its director. 



Dr. Raymond A. Pearson, recently commissioner of agriculture 

 for the State of New York, has accepted the presidency of the Iowa 

 State College of Agriculture at Ames. 



Dr. C. Raunkiär has been appointed professor of botany and 

 director of the botanical garden at Copenhagen in succession to 

 Professor Eugene Warming, who retires from active service. 



Dr. J. N. Rose has been appointed research associate in the de- 

 partment of botanical research of the Carnegie Institution. 



Dr. L. A. Ryan has been appointed assistant professor of chem- 



