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which have been planted in entirely different habitats from 

 those in which they originally grew. Some of these plants, such 

 as Acorus calamus, were taken from swamps to dry upland and 

 have grown normally for two years. 



In order to make more permanent the research in the rela- 

 tion of the growth of tree rings to climate, which Dr. A. E. 

 Douglass has carried on for years, the University of Arizona 

 plans to establish a permanent laboratory with Dr. Emil Haury, 

 professor of anthropology and Dr. Edwin F. Carpenter, pro- 

 fessor of astronomy, collaborating with Dr. Douglass. 



The Cornell Alumni News has the following note: "Dr. 

 Liberty Hyde Bailey, Agriculture, Emeritus, seventy-nine years 

 young, has returned to his Hortorium in Ithaca from exciting 

 adventures in the West Indies. During a trip to collect palms in 

 some of the uncharted islands of the Bahamas, he and a com- 

 panion were caught in a tropical storm at sea in an eighteen- 

 foot open skiff, without food or water for five days and four 

 nights, and were raked with gunfire in a native brawl. 'But I got 

 what I went after,' Dr. Bailey says." 



Dr. Eugene C. Auchter has been appointed Chief of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of the U.S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, succeeding Frederick D. Richey, who resigned to engage 

 in professional corn breeding. Dr. Auchter graduated from 

 Cornell University in 1912 and received his doctorate there in 

 1923. From 1912 to 1917 he was a member of the West Virginia 

 Experiment Station. From 1918 to 1928 he was head of the 

 Department of Horticulture at the University of Maryland, 

 since and has been head of the Division of Fruit and Vege- 

 table Crops and Diseases of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Dr. Roland Harper has sent us a note from a Sacramento 

 paper, stating that 45 tons of granulated borax had been re- 

 ceived by the County Agricultural Commissioner on Sonoma 

 County to be used in the control of Klamath Weed. This weed 

 is our familiar St. John's Wort, Hypericum perforatum. In Jep- 

 son's Manual of California Plants the statement regarding this 

 plant is "European weed, becoming a pest in abandoned or 

 poorly tilled fields in the hill country of northern California." 



