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Dr. E. C. Ogden, of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard, has 

 been appointed instructor in botany at the University of Maine. 



A. H. G. Alston, an assistant keeper in the department of 

 botany of the British Museum (Natural History), is visiting 

 northern South America collecting plants for the museum and 

 studying ferns. He attended the first South American Botanical 

 Assembly at Rio de Janeiro from October 12 to 19. 



Dr. Francis Drouet has been appointed a member of the 

 department of botany of the Field Museum of Natural History 

 and will have charge of the collection of cryptogamic plants. 



