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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. Burton E. Livingston, Staff Member, Department of 
Botanical Research of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 
has accepted an ointment as professor of plant physiology 
in Johns Hopkins eae He will assume his new duties 
with the opening of the next academic year. Dr. Livingston 
carried on investigations at the New York Botanical Garden 
during 1903 and 1905. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief, sailed on the S. S. 
“Lusitania” for Europe August 18. He will spend his time 
while abroad in making comparisons of a large number of speci- 
mens from the West Indies with type material at Kew and the 
British Museum. 
Mr. Fred J. Seaver spent Wednesday, August 5, in the New 
York State Museum looking over some of the numerous types 
of fungi in the collections of Dr. C. H. Peck. Especial attention 
was given to the genus /Zypomyces the plants of which genus 
normally occur as parasites on other fleshy fungi. In his studies 
of fleshy fungi Dr. Peck has added materially to our knowledge 
of the parasites which occur on such hosts. 
Prof. David R. Sumstine, of the Pittsburgh High School, was 
awarded a research scholarship at the Garden for the month of 
uly. Mr. Sumstine is es in a systematic study of the 
Mucoraceae of North Americ 
We learn from Sctence ne “The College of Agriculture of 
the University of the Philippines, situated at Los Banos, opened 
on June 14, with about sixty students. E. B. Copeland is dean 
and professor in botany; Harold Cuzner, sindeas of agron- 
omy ; gar edyard, professor of zodlogy, S. B. Dur- 
ham, professor of animal husbandry. The eee opened a 
school of fine arts in Manila at the same time; it has no entrance 
requirements, and its registration is above 4oo. A college of 
veterinary science for a school a was announced to 
open at the same time but there was only one applicant for 
ste The pees of public instruction, Judge Newton 
W. Gilbert, is acting president of the university.” 
