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Professor L. H. Bailey has been given leave of absence from 

 the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, to devote his time 

 to the chairmanship of the commission appointed by President 

 Roosevelt to investigate social and economic conditions of rural 

 life. 



At the University of Maine the following appointments have 

 been made : V. R. Gardner, M.S., assistant professor of horti- 

 culture ; C. E. Lewis, Ph.D., associate vegetable pathologist ; 

 M. R. Curtis, M.A., assistant in biology; H. N. Conser, M.S.,. 

 instructor in botany ; E. M. Wallace, B.A., instructor in biology. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, formerly of Teachers College, has 

 accepted the position of professor of botany at the Alabama Poly- 

 technic Institute. During the past year Professor Lloyd has 

 been engaged in the investigation of the Mexican desert rubber 

 plant, Partheniiim argentatum A. Gray, for a Mexican rubber 

 company. 



The Central University of Equador at Quito desiring to in- 

 crease its museums invites the correspondence of parties who 

 wish to exchange for collections of Ecuadorian fauna, flora, etc. 

 Those who wish to secure any particular specimen or collection 

 have only to apply to the rector or the secretary of the Central 

 University of Equador at Quito. 



An additional construction appropriation of ;^2 5,000 for the 

 New York Botanical Garden, was approved in August ; it will be 

 expended in continuing the construction of driveways and 

 paths, principally on the eastern side of the grounds, in the com- 

 pletion of the grading operations necessary at the museum build- 

 ing, and in the extension of the system of water-supply and 

 drainage. 



The Poiirqiioi Pas left Havre August 16 on a second voyage 

 to the Antarctic regions. Dr. Francois Charcot, the commander^ 

 expects to be absent about two years. The Pourqnoi Pas will 

 reach the region of southern ice, 800 kilometers south of Cape 

 Horn, at the beginning of the austral summer, about December 

 15. The marine botanist and zoologist of the staff is Dr. Jacques 

 Liouville. 



