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Dr. Frederick C. Busch has resigned as professor of physiology 

 in the University of Buffalo to accept the position of clinician at the 

 New York Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases, and has 

 been succeeded by Dr. Frederick H. Pratt. 



Mr. Mark A. Carleton, for the past eighteen years in charge of 

 grain investigations in the Bureau of Plant Industry, and well 

 known as the introducer and propagator of Durum wheat and the 

 Swedish select oat, has resigned his present position to take charge 

 of the work of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission. 



Dr. R. C. Collison of the department of nutrition, at Ohio Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, has resigned to accept the position of 

 field expert, in the department of soils, at New York Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



Dr. C. E. Craig, instructor in agronomy in Purdue University, 

 has accepted the position of agronomist in the Polytechnic School 

 at Porto Alegre, Brazil. 



Dr. L. J. Gross has been promoted from instructor to assistant 

 professor of agricultural chemistry at Cornell University. 



Prof. Friedrich Czapek, of the University of Prague, has been 

 appointed to the chair of plant physiology and pathology in the Im- 

 perial College of Science and Technology, London. 



For the chair of medical chemistry, in the Faculte de medecine 

 of Paris, to succeed Prof. Armand Gautier, who recently retired, 

 the choice feil on Dr. Desgrez, agrege at the school and for many 

 years a co-worker with Professor Gautier. 



Prof. B. M. Duggar, of Cornell University, has been elected to 

 the professorship of plant physiology and applied botany in Wash- 

 ington University, vacated by Dr. George T. Moore in accepting 

 the directorship of the Missouri Botanical Garden (page 492). 



Dr. Dürck, until a short time ago director of the pathologic insti- 

 tute at Jena and for the last few months prosector of the pathologic 

 Institute of a municipal hospital in Munich, has assumed the direc- 

 tion of the pathologic institute at Rio de Janeiro. 



