We antit'ipn Ic IhjiL Dr. I'.iMin I age will make s isni I'.ican I. (!on Lr\i hii I i mis 

 to our L"eacli.1n,t!; aiul rt'searc-h progi\Tni.s .in the area of pos t-iiarvest pliysi- 

 ology of ecMiiioniie crops. lie joins our staff .Tiiiy 1 , l')6i|. 



Dr. If. V. l^arsh, Jr. - Dr. i^arsh was brought up in tlie local Con- 

 necticul: Valley area, and obtained his precollege education at Deerfield 

 Academy. At the University of IMlassachusetts he was a chemistry major 

 and graduated with a B.S. degree in 195'^ After a period in the Armed 

 Services, ho continued his education at the University of IMassachuset ts 

 in horticulture with a minor in botany and obtained his IM.S. degree in 

 1958. His I^.S. degree work provided substantial evidence that seed abor- 

 tion was not a necessity nor the basic mechanism causing young apple 

 abscission following an application of NAA (naphthalene acetic acid) 

 shortly after petal-fall. 



He continued his graduate work at North Carolina State in plant 

 physiology and biochemistry under Dr. Harold Evans (now at Oregon State 

 University) . His work at North Carolina State involved an investigation 

 of the role of iron in chlorophyll metabolism. Dr. Marsh received his 

 Ph.D. in 1961 and then spent a summer at Brookhaven National Laboratory 

 at Upton, L.I., in the laboratory of Dr. Robert SmilJie, where he studied 

 an enzyme which functions in both photosynthesis and carbohydrate break- 

 down. 



In the fall of 1961, he accepted a post-doctoral appointment in the 

 Biochemistry Department of Cornell University under Dr. Martin Gibbs. 

 During a two-year period at Cornell he worked with a group attempting to 

 establish definitive evidence as to whether or not the citric acid cycle 

 operates in plants. For the past year Dr. Marsh has been employed at the 

 Research Laboratories of the United Fruit Company at Noi^wood , Mass. 



Dr. Marsh has the training and interest to initiate basic research 

 programs dealing with plant response. He has already indicated a desire 

 to study the mechanisms involved in abscission of young apple fruits fol- 

 lowing application of growth regulators, such as NAA for apple thinning. 

 He'll join our staff sometime in September, 1964. 



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POMOLOGICAL PARAGRAPH 



X-Disease - Cornell Extension Bulletin 1100 titled "X-Disease of Peach 

 and Cherry Trees and Its Control" is a publication that should be of in- 

 terest to peach growers. In addition to a discussion of X-Disease and 

 its control, the publication contains some excellent photographs which 

 aid in identifying chokecherry. 



By sending 20 cents, a copy may be obtained from the Cooperative 

 Extension Service, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 



- - William J. Lord 



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