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Staff Announcements. 



Dr. B. T. Galloway, whose resignation from the 

 position of Dean of the College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell University has been announced in the papers, 

 has returned to the Department and has taken charge 

 of two important investigative projects in the Office 

 of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. 



Believing that he has done his share of adminis- 

 trative work and earned the right to pursue studies 

 in agriculture of a purely investigative character, 

 Dr. Galloway has taken hold of tne following projects 

 in this Office, viz. : 



The Protection and Propagation of New Plant Introductions and 

 Plant Introduction Surveys. The former project covers a wide 

 field of research, which has in recent years become a 

 necessity owing to the operation of the Act creating 

 the Federal Horticultural Board. The problems are 

 those connected with the production from suspected or 

 diseased plant material brought in from abroad of per- 

 fectly healthy young plants suitable for distribution 

 throughout the country. To facilitate this work a 

 special laboratory is being erected adjacent to the 

 inspection house and quarantine enclosure on the Mall 

 and Dr. Galloway expects to occupy this laboratory 

 upon his return from an extended trip which he is now 

 making through the West. This trip is for the dual 

 purpose first of making an investigation of the Plant 

 Introduction Field Stations of the Bureau to as- 

 certain what increased facilities will be required 

 to make them more effective, and second of making a 

 preliminary survey of the plant introductions which 

 have been made into that territory and the possibility 

 of further expansion of their cultivation as plant in- 

 dustries. This latter study is preliminary to the de- 

 velopment of Dr. Galloway's second project, which in- 

 volves the bringing together in a comprehensive way 

 for practical use of ail the available information 

 which is required for the organization and successful 

 maintenance of new plant industries brought about 

 through the i-ntroduction of new foreign seeds and 

 plants . 



Dr. Galloway's itinerary has taken him through 

 Canada, where he has studied the progess of the plant 

 introduction work which was so well begun by Dr. 

 William Saunders. It will take him through to the Puget 

 Sound Region and down the Pacific Coast to southern 



