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at the Biltmore Forest School on the fungi injurious to forest 

 trees. 



Dr. Raymond H. Pond, who returned to New York in May 

 after courses of study in Jost's laboratories in Bonn and Strass- 

 burg, has been appointed biologist of the Metropolitan Sewerage 

 Commission of New York. 



]V[r. C. F. Baker has resigned the position of curator of the 

 herbarium and botanical garden of the Museu Goeldi at Para, 

 Brazil, and has returned to Claremont, California, as associate 

 professor of biology in Pomona College. 



The Jamestown exhibition collection of models of fruits and 

 vegetables, probably the most complete series of its kind that has 

 ever been prepared, has been given to the United States National 

 Museum by Mr. J. N. Leger, the Minister from Haiti, There 

 are over one hundred models, including the following : cashew, 

 ginger plant, mango, alligator pear, custard apple, pomegranate, 

 guava, tamarind, naseberry, and bread fruit. 



Massachusetts, justly termed a leader in economic reforms, has 

 already appointed a State Conservation Committee to cooperate 

 with the national committee recently appointed by President 

 Roosevelt. The chairman is Mr. F. W. Rane, the state for- 

 ester, under whose management much has recently been done to 

 obtain and preserve forest lands, through the recent wise and 

 generous provisions of the State Legislature. 



The San Jacinto forest in California, one of the original thir- 

 teen national forests reserved by President Cleveland in 1897, has 

 been renamed by President Roosevelt in honor of the President 

 under whose administration the first national forests were cre- 

 ated. Nearly 25,000,000 acres were at that time made into 

 national forests upon the recommendation of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, and in honor of Washington's one hundred and 

 sixty-fifth birthday anniversary. 



