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nomica Central of Cuba, has accepted an appointment as agricul- 

 tural specialist of the Cuban-American Sugar Company. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton left New York on August 22 for 

 another botanical visit to the island of Jamaica. They expect to 

 return about September 30. 



Recent journals announce the death of Dr. Hermann Karston, 

 the Berlin botanist, aged ninety-two years, and also that of Pro- 

 fessor Daguillon, assistant professor of botany at the Sorbonne. 



Dr. P. A. Rydberg, of the New York Botanical Garden staff, 

 spent two weeks in the latter part of August in collecting in the 

 Roan Mountain region of North Carolina and Tennessee. 



Dr. Roland M. Harper gave a course of botanical lectures in 

 July and August at the Biltmore Forest School, in North Caro- 

 lina. He has since been carrying on botanical field-work in 

 Georgia and Alabama. 



In the distribution of the Bonaparte fund for 1908 by the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences, the sum of 2,000 francs has been awarded 

 to L, Blaringhem to enable him to continue his studies on the 

 variation of species and the experimental methods of creating new 

 species of plants. 



The United States Forest Service has arranged for six sub- 

 offices, to be situated in six cities which are centers of interest in 

 forestry. Two of the cities selected are San Francisco and Den- 

 ver, and one will probably be Portland ; it is expected that offices 

 will be opened in the states of Montana and Utah. 



Fred Jay Seaver, M.Sc, assistant professor of botany in the 

 North Dakota Agricultural College, has been appointed director 

 of the laboratories of the New York Botanical Garden, succeed- 

 ing Dr. C. Stuart Gager, who has accepted the professorship of 

 botany in the University of Missouri. Mr. Seaver held the fel- 

 lowship in botany in Columbia University during the year 1906-7 

 and was formerly professor of biology in the Iowa Wesleyan 

 University. 



