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South Dakota Station. — President John W. Heston lias been elected acting 

 director of the station. 



Utah STATrox. — W. W. McLaughlin, B. S., has been appointed assistant chemist 

 of the station. 



Vermont Station. — A. W. Edson, A. B., assistant botanist of the station, has 

 become student aid in the Bureau of Plant Industry of this Department, and W. .7. 

 Morse, B. S., has been appointed to succeed him. 



Virginia Station. — John Spencer, V. S., has been appointed assistant veterinarian, 

 i>ice C. McCulloch. 



Necrology. — Dr. Charles Mohr, the well-known botanist of the Southern United 

 States, died at Ashevtlle, N. C, July 17, in his seventy-seventh year. Dr. Mohr 

 was born December 28, 1824, at Esslingen-on-the-Neckar, Germany. He was edu- 

 cated as an apothecary, but his natural inclination was in the line of botany. In 

 1846 he made a trip to South America, returning to Euroi)e early in 1848, soon after 

 which he came to the United States, settling in Mobile, Ala., in 1857, making that 

 his home thereafter. He has long ])een considered an authority on the forest, medici- 

 nal, and other economic plants of the South. In 1885 he prepared and had charge 

 of the collection of medicinal and other useful plants of the South at the New Orleans 

 Exposition. He contributed the information regarding Southern forests to the report 

 on the forests of the United States in the Tenth Census Report and Bulletin 13 of the 

 Division of Forestry. The Timber Pines of the Southern United States was written 

 by him. He also contributed extensively to botanical and pharmaceutical journals, 

 usually treating of economic considerations. At the time of his death there was in 

 course of publication for the Botanical Division of this Department a report on the 

 fiora of Alabama, which gives results of forty yeai s of his observations. 



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