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Mr. James P. Kelly has recently been appointed instructor of 
botany in the Pennsylvania State College. During the past 
two years Mr. Kelly has been a student of the Garden, taking the 
degree of M.A. at Columbia University in the spring of the 
present year. 
Professor C. E. Allen, head of the department of botany at the 
University of Wisconsin, was a visitor at the Garden on September 
23. Professor Allen and family spent the past year in France 
and Switzerland and were returning to Wisconsin for the begin- 
ning of the school year. 
Mr. Allen C. Fraser, B.S. Cornell 1913, who has been assistant 
and scholar in plant breeding at the Garden during the past two 
summers and an assistant in sed at Columbia University 
during the past academic year, has accepted the position of 
instructor in the ee wt plant breeding in Cornell 
University. 
Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh, Curator of the Department of 
Botany of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, will 
lecture at the American M useum of Natural History on Thursday, 
November 5, at 4 P.M. in the children’s course making “‘A Plea 
for the Wild Flowers.” Dr. Millspaugh is President of the Wild 
Flower Preservation Society of America and has been very 
active in organizing the Chicago Chapter 
Dr. Francis W. Pennell has been appointed as Associate 
Curator of the Museum, filling the position made vacant by the 
death of Dr. Charles Budd Robinson. Dr. Pennell is a graduate 
of the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he 
holds the degrees of B.S. and Ph.D. Hehas prosecuted botanical 
investigation there, at the Academy of Natural Sciences in 
Philadelphia, at the United States National Museum, in the 
vicinity of his home in Delaware County, es and at 
points in de southern and southeastern state: 
