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At Western Reserve University, Mr. Carl Byron James has 

 been made assistant professor of biology in Adelbert College 

 and the College for Women. 



Mr. Martin J. lorns, horticulturist at the Experiment Station, 

 Mayaguez, P. R., has gone to Cuba and Plorida to investigate the 

 citrus and pineapple industries. 



Dr. Henrietta E. Hooker has resigned her position as head of 

 the department of botany, having been thirty-five years in the 

 service of the college. She will be succeeded by Associate Pro- 

 fessor Mary E. Kennedy. 



Mr. L. W. Hawley, expert on wood distillation for the Forest 

 Service, has left Washington for Oregon, Washington, Montana, 

 and Idaho, to investigate the possibilities of a future turpentine 

 industry in the northwestern portion of the United States. 



The Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University has pur- 

 chased a site at the end of Rocky Beach off Bradley Point, 

 Savin Rock, on which an experiment and collecting station will 

 be erected. The building is intended for use during the col- 

 lege year when the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole 

 is not accessible. 



King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, has erected a palace for the 

 International Institute of Agriculture. Mr. David Lubin, of San 

 Francisco, was the originator of the idea and a prominent dele- 

 gate at the dedication. Although the many proposed activities 

 of the Institute are chiefly social and economic, they are to be 

 based upon strictly scientific investigation, and the reports, such 

 as warnings of the appearance of new plant and animal diseases, 

 will be of distinct value to science. 



