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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
An interesting series of argols from southern France and 
southern Africa has lately been presented to the Economic 
Museum by Dr. H. H. Rusby. Argol, or crude tartar, is the 
crust deposited from grape juice during fermentation, and upon 
purification yields cream of tartar. 
Dr. Joseph E. Kirkwood, formerly a student at Columbia 
University and the New York Botanical Garden and later pro- 
fessor of botany in Syracuse University, has been appointed as- 
sistant need of forestry and botany in the University of Mon- 
na at Missoula, Mont. Dr. Kirkwood spent the year 1907-08 
in Mexico as a botanical investigator for the Continental-Mexican 
Rubber Company. 
Mr. William T. Horne, who was fellow in botany in Columbia 
University and a student at the Garden in 1903-04, has resigned 
his position as plant pathologist of the Cuban Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station to become assistant professor of plant pathology 
in the University of California. 
Volume 17, part 1, of ‘‘ North American Flora” appeared June 
30, I909. It contains description of the Typhaceae by Perc 
Wilson ; Sern ace lodeaceae and Hydrocharitaceae by 
PLA. ce dber: ; Zannichelliaceae, Zosteraceae, Cymodoceaceae, 
Naiadaceae ana ‘Lilseaceae by Norman Taylor ; Scheuchzeriaceae 
by N. L. Britton; Alismaceae by J. K. Small and Butomaceae 
and Poaceae (pars) by G. V. Nash. 
. Percy Wilson, Administrative Assistant, returned from 
the Bahames June 13, after a successful survey of the islands of 
the Salt Key Bank. A report of this expedition will appear in a 
forthcoming issue of the JoURNAL. 
William R. Maxon, Assistant Curator, U. S. National 
Museum, Washington, D. C., spent the last two weeks of June 
at the Garden, completing manuscript for a part of “ North 
American Flora 
ee has recently returned to New York 
from a four weeks’ collecting trip in the Cumberland-Tennessee 
River region of western Kentucky. . 
