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formal Gardens." "The Principles of Plant Culture" is the subject 

 of E. S. Goff. Edward Oliver Essig has written "A History of 

 Entomology," K. M. Smith "Agricultural Entomology," and John 

 Percival "Agricultural Bacteriology," all of which are now in the 

 Library. Volume III of The Ferns, in the Cambridge Botanical 

 Handbooks, deals with Leptosporangiate ferns. F. O. Bower is the 



Carol H. Woodward. 



NOTES, NEWS, AND COMMENT 



At the annual meetings held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the 

 last week of December, Dr. E. D. Merrill was elected President of 

 the Botanical Society of America, and Dr. B. O. Dodge was elected 

 Vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science and Chairman of its Section G (Botany). Members of 

 the Botanical Garden staff attending the meetings were, in addition 

 to Dr. Dodge, Dr. Marshall A. Howe, who presented a paper on 

 "A marine-algal reef in the mountains of California"; Dr. H. A. 

 Gleason, who continues as Treasurer of the Botanical Society of 

 America ; Dr. F. J. Seaver, who continues as Managing Editor and 

 Editor-in-Chief of Mycologia, now the official organ of the My- 

 cological Society of America ; Dr. Forman T. McLean, and Mr. 

 Harold N. Moldenke. Miss Alice Aronescu, graduate student, 

 presented a paper on "Diplocarpon rosac: From spore germination 

 to haustorium formation." 



Dr. B. O. Dodge was a speaker at the fall meeting of the Society 

 for the Study of Asthma and Allied Conditions, held in New York 

 December 9. His subject was "Common Molds." Also on the 

 program was Dr. J. Gardner Hopkins, of Columbia University. 

 Discussion followed both addresses. 



Mr. Knowles A. Ryerson has been appointed Chief of the Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry of the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, in suc- 

 cession to Dr. W. A. Taylor, retired. Mr. Frederick D. Richey 

 becomes Associate Chief and Dr. Karl F. Kellerman, formerly 

 Associate Chief, becomes head of a new Division of Plant Disease 

 Eradication and Control in the Bureau of Entomology. This divi- 



