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Professor C. E. Seashore, dean of the graduate college of the 
State University of Iowa and teacher of psychology in Columbia 
University during the summer term, visited the Garden on 
July 27. 
Mr. L. O. Overholts, of the department of botany of Miami 
University, Oxford, Ohio, has been granted a research scholar- 
ship during August and September. He will devote his attention 
to the preparation of a list of the Polyporaceae of Ohio, with 
full keys to the genera and species. 
Professor W. G. Stover, of the Oklahoma Agricultural Exper- 
iment Station, has been appointed assistant professor of botany 
in Ohio State University for the coming year. Mr. Stover is 
a graduate of Miami University and was at one time a student 
at the Garden. 
Mr. P. J. Anderson, field pathologist of the Pennsylvania 
Chestnut Tree Blight Commission, and Professor H. W. Ander- 
son, investigator for this Commission, visited the Garden August 
14 to examine herbarium specimens and literature of fungi 
relating to the chestnut blight. ' 
Professor John Craig, head of the department of horticulture 
at Cornell University and well known throughout the country 
for his publications on this subject, died at Siasconsett, Massa- 
chusetts, August 12, aged 48 years. Professor Craig attended 
the floral exhibit at the Garden on May 25 and was much inter- 
ested in the large display of lilacs from Mr. Havemeyer’s collec- 
tion at Glen Head, Long Island. At that time, he arranged 
to present to the Garden a full set of duplicates from his very 
complete collection of peonies, on which a series of his studies 
extending over several years has been based 
Professor J. J. Thornber, of the University of Arizona, spent 
two days at the Garden in July looking over the collections of 
certain groups of the flowering plants. Professor Thornber is 
just returning from a year’s study in the National Museum at 
Washington. 
The large amount of damage to the foliage of oak trees by 
oak leaf-miners has been brought to the attention of the Garden. 
