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Mr. C. F. Baker, who received the degree of master of arts 

 from Stanford University last spring, has been appointed assistant 

 professor of biology in Pomona College, Claremont, California. 



Mr. Robert S. Williams, of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 started on August 30 for Manila. He plans to devote a year or 

 more to making collections for the" Garden in the Philippine 

 Islands. 



Mr. Charles Louis Pollard, for several years connected with 

 the botanical department of the United States National Museum, 

 has resigned to accept a position on the scientific staff of Webster's 

 Dictionary. 



After September 15, the permanent address of Mr. A. A. 

 Heller, the well-known botanical collector, who has been working 

 in California for the past year, will be Los Gatos, Santa Clara 

 County, California. 



Professor Francis E. Lloyd, of Teachers College, Columbia 

 University, and Mrs. Lloyd, returned on September 7 from a 

 ten weeks' visit to the island of Dominica of the British West 

 Indies. They spent a short time also on the islands of Martinique 

 and St. Lucia. 



Messrs. George V. Nash and Harry Baker, of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, returned on September 14, from a seven weeks' 

 visit to Haiti. Collections of living plants and herbarium speci- 

 mens were made by them in the mountainous region of the 

 northwestern part of the island, mostly to the westward of Cape 

 Haitien. 



Dr. W. A. Cannon, recently fellow in botany in Columbia 

 University and assistant in the laboratories of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, left New York on August 21 to assume his 

 new duties as director of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the 

 Carnegie Institution at Tucson, Arizona. The building which 

 has been erected for this laboratory is now practically completed. 



