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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Professor B. M. Davis, of the University of Pennsylvania, 
visited the Garden recently to make observations on the work 
in plant breeding. 
Professor C. C. Curtis is taking his sabbatical year of absence 
from active service at Columbia University. 
Dr. Jacques Huber, director of the Goeldi Museum of Natural 
History and of the Botanical Garden of Para, Brazil, who was in 
the city to attend the Third International Rubber Exposition, 
was a recent visitor at the Garden. 
Professor Francis E. Lloyd, recently elected MacDonald Pro- 
fessor of Botany in McGill University, Montreal, visited the 
Garden on September 27. 
Dr. W. A. Murrill recently spent two weeks collecting fleshy 
fungi at Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains. 
Mr. John F. Waby, head gardener of the Botanic Gardens at 
Georgetown, British Guiana, visited the Garden on Thursday, 
September 19. He has been located in Georgetown for thirty-five 
years, 
Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, formerly of Columbia University and the 
Garden, has recently resigned his position of professor of botany 
in Washburn College to accept the position of professor of plant 
physiology in Washington State College and physiologist to the 
Experiment Station at Pullman. 
Dr. F. D. Heald, professor of botany in the University of 
Texas, has resigned to accept the position of pathologist to the 
Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Commission, Philadelphia 
Professor J. W. Harshberger, of the University of Pennsylvania, 
visited the Garden on October 9, to examine some of the south 
Florida specimens in connection with his studies in the phyto- 
geography of that region. 
Dr. C. A. Darling, of Columbia University, spent the summer 
in Europe, visiting a number of the principal botanical centers. 
