NEWS NOTES 



Dr. Paul R. Burkholder, associate professor of botany at 

 Connecticut College, has been appointed associate professor at 

 the University of Missouri. (Science). 



Dr. A. A. Dunlap, assistant mycologist and plant physiolo- 

 gist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, has 

 taken up his work as chief of the division of plant pathology and 

 physiology at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. 

 (Science) 



The Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution and the 

 Arnold Arboretum are co-operating in a botanical study of the 

 Chihuahuan Desert in northern Mexico and adjacent parts of 

 Texas and New Mexico. Dr. Forrest Shreve and Dr. T. D. 

 Mallery of the Desert Laboratory and Dr. L M. Johnston of the 

 Arnold Arboretum have been doing field work during August 

 and September in the states of Coahuila and San Luis Potosi. 



Among the passengers on the ill-fated Hawaii Clipper that 

 was lost near the Philippines on July 28 was Fred Campbell 

 Meier who had been connected with the LT. S. Department of 

 Agriculture for twenty years. His work was connected with 

 plant pathology. For some years he was greatly interested in 

 collected spores and bacteria from high altitudes by means of 

 "sky-hooks." In their trip across the North Atlantic the Lind- 

 berghs collected material for him. He had recently been given a 

 grant by the National Research Council which would enable 

 him to take leave from his official work and spend six months on 

 his hobby. It was on the first trip after receiving the grant that 

 he lost his life. 



Darwin M. Andrews of Boulder, Colo., died on Aug. 14 in 

 his sixty-ninth year. He was a student of the plants of Colorado 

 and had worked at bringing native species into cultivation and 

 improving them for horticulture. 



Dr. Charles A. Shull of the University of Chicago is guest 

 professor of the department of botany of Oklahoma Agricul- 

 tural and Mechanical College. He will continue his work on 

 Plant Physiology and The Botanical Gazette while there. 



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