102 
plant parts used economically, and also interesting botanical 
facts concerning the plants. The section, when completely in- 
stalled, will include three Divisions, viz., A. Foods and condi- 
ments, B. Medicinal and poisonous plants, C. Fiber plants. 
Co. G, 
APPOINTMENT OF DR. OLIVE 
As indicated on page 32 of the current volume of the 
ReEcorp, the departmental organization of the Garden includes a 
department of public instruction, for the primary purpose of 
making the Garden as useful as possible to local schools in 
connection with their instruction in botany. It was a pleasure 
to announce, in the preceding (July) number of the R&corp, 
the appointment of Dr. Edgar W. Olive as Curator of Public 
Instruction, in charge of this department, and also of the work 
in: Plant Pathology in the department of Graduate Study and 
Research. 
Dr. Olive is an alumnus of Wabash College (B. $., ’93; 
M.S., ’95), and pursued graduate work in Harvard University, 
receiving the degree of A.M. in 1897, and Ph.D. in 1902. From 
1893 to 1895 he was instructor in botany at Wabash, was 
teacher of science in the high school at Frankfort, Ind., during 
1895-96, and from 1897 to 1903 he was instructor in Harvard 
and Radcliffe. During 1903-06 Dr. Olive served as research 
assistant in the Carnegie Institution of Washington, spending 
one year in botanical research at Bonn, Germany. On returning 
to this country he was also made a resident lecturer in botany at 
the University of Wisconsin (1904-07), and in 1907 was ap- 
pointed professor of botany in the State College of South 
Dakota, and state botanist. 
Dr. Olive is a fellow of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, a member of the Botanical Society of | 
America, and of several other scientific organizations, and well 
known in the botanical world for his admirable studies in the 
cytology and life history of the rusts and other fungi. 
