38 



of his work in Amboina will not be lost, for his collections, notes, 

 etc., are intact, and are being forwarded to Buitenzorg, whither 

 I shall probably go to receive and care for them. However, no- 

 body but Dr. Robinson can do justice to the work of correlating 

 the collections with the plants described and figured by Rumph, 

 although his progress reports, very extensive and detailed, prob- 

 ably over 60,000 words, will help to clear up many points." An 

 account of Dr. Robinson's life and work will appear in an early 

 number of the Bulletin. 



The following new appointments of members of the gardening 

 staff at Kew are quoted in Nature from Kew Bulletin: Mr. G. 

 S. Crouch, to be assistant director of horticulture in the Egyptian 

 department of agriculture; Mr. T. H. Parsons, to be curator of 

 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon, in succession 

 to Mr. H. F. Macmillan, who has been appointed superintendent 

 of horticulture in the department of agriculture, Ceylon; Mr. 

 C. F. Allen, to be curator of the Botanic Garden, Port Darwin, 

 Northern Territory, South Australia, in succession to Mr. N. 

 Holtze, deceased. 



At the meeting of the American Phytopathological Society 

 recently held at Atlanta the following officers were elected: 

 President, Dr. Haven Metcalf, Washington, D. C. ; Vice-president, 

 Dr. Frank D. Kern, State College, Pa.; Counsellor, Professor 

 H. R. Fulton, West Raleigh, N. C. 



Dr. J. C. Arthur and Mr. F. D. Fromme of Purdue University 

 are spending the month of February on a botanical trip to the 

 southwest. They will visic a number of localities in Texas, New 

 Mexico and Arizona where certain species of Uredinales, whose 

 life histories are incompletely known have been previously col- 

 lected. 



Mr. E. H. Wilson, whose recent book on western China was 

 reviewed in Torreya for January, has gone to Japan for a two 

 years' collecting trip. 



