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NEWS ITEMS 



Victor E. Emil, Ph.D., of the Harvard Medical School, has 

 been appointed instructor in biology at the George Washington 

 University. 



Mr. Chas. T. Vorhies, of the University of Wisconsin, has been 

 elected to the chair of biology in the University of Utah. 



Professor John M. Macfarlane, professor of botany in the 

 University of Pennsylvania, has returned from a collecting trip 

 in the Gulf states. 



Dr. S. O. Mast, Johnston professor of biological science at Hope 

 College, has been appointed associate professor of biology at 

 the Woman's College of Baltimore. 



Dr. Clifton D. Howe, associate director of the Biltmore For- 

 est School, Biltmore, North Carolina, has accepted an appoint- 

 ment as lecturer in forestry in the University of Toronto. 



The Summer School of the Connecticut Agricultural College, 

 which holds its seventh annual session July i to 24 inclusive, 

 offers special courses in nature study and elementary agriculture. 

 The school is planned to meet the needs of teachers and others 

 interested in outdoor life. 



E. C. Parker, assistant agriculturist at the Minnesota Experi- 

 ment Station, will sail on June 30 to become expert adviser to 

 the government officials of Manchuria. With W. H. Tombave, 

 now connected with the University of Pennsylvania, he will be 

 employed in instituting modern methods of agriculture in Man- 

 churia. 



Dr. Charles A. Kofoid, associate professor of histology and 

 embryology in the University of California and assistant director 

 of the San Diego Marine Biological Laboratory, has been granted 

 leave of absence and will spend the coming academic year in 

 Europe, principally at Munich and Naples. He will also deliver 

 lectures in Liverpool and London. 



Professor Leslie A. Lee, of Bowdoin College, who is noted 

 especially for his research expeditions in Labrador and South 



