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November 23, 150 specimens from Texas. Presented by the 
Rev. L. H. Lighthipe. 
November 25, 629 specimens from Long Island. Collected and 
presented to the Garden by William C. Ferguson. 
November 30, by exchange with the Smithsonian Institution 
(U. S. National Museum), 1,412 miscellaneous specimens. 
Cranberry School.—One of the most recent illustrations of the 
extent to which botanical science has become specialized is the 
initiation of a “cranberry school,” under the auspices of the Cape 
Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association and the Extension Service of 
the Massachusetts Agricultural College. The school is intended 
primarily for bog owners, bog foremen, high-school students, or 
any others interested in the cranberry industry. At the first field 
meeting of the school, at Wareham, Mass., November 5, the fol- 
lowing subjects were considered: Black-head fireworm eggs, green 
spanworm eggs, cranberry girdler (work, cocoons, and eggs), root 
grubs, cranberry tipworm (work and wintering), wintering of 
fruit worm. The instruction is in charge of Dr. H. J. Franklin, 
superintendent of the Cranberry Experiment Station, East Ware- 
ham. Instruction during the coming year is free of charge. 
Research Fellow.—Mr. James A. Faris has been appointed Re- 
search Fellow in connection with the investigations in plant dis- 
eases made possible by the gift of Mr. Alfred T. White and 
others. Mr. Faris received his degree of B.S.A. from the Uni- 
versity of Missouri in 1916, and his M.A. degree from Nebraska 
in 1920. During 1917-18 he was professor of botany in the 
Junior College, St. Joseph, Mo., and from 1918-20, pathologist in 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture. From November, 1920, to 
November 15, 1921, when his appointment at the Botanic Garden 
took effect, he was pathologist at the Estacion Agronomica of the 
College of Agriculture, Santo Domingo. Mr. Faris has recently 
made an important contribution to our knowledge of a destructive 
potato disease, known as “ Violet Root Rot.” 
