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sity, Taihoku, Formosa, is spending the summer months at the 

 New York Botanical Garden studying specimens from the 

 Augustine Henry collection of Formosan plants. This collection, 

 made during the latter part of the nineteenth century, is the 

 one on which the first enumeration of Formosan plants, pub- 

 lished in 1896, was based. (Science) 



Dr. J. M. Aikman, associate professor of botany at Iowa 

 State College, has been given leave of absence to become senior 

 botanist in the shelter belt project of the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



The appointment has been announced of Frederick D. 

 Richey as chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry to succeed 

 Knowles A. Ryerson. Mr. Ryerson will resume his earlier 

 work with citrus fruits, avocados, dates and other tropical 

 fruits, heading a section of subtropical horticulture in the De- 

 partment. Mr. Richey has been in the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try for more than 23 years and was appointed associate chief 

 of the Bureau on January 1 of this year. 



Dr. Fredrica Detmers, sixty-eight years old, curator of the 

 herbarium at the University of Southern California died in Los 

 Angeles on September 5th. She had come to the university from 

 Ohio State University. She was regarded as an authority on 

 native grasses. 



Norman Taylor, Editor of Torreya from 1911 until 1921, 

 and editor for botany of the new Webster's Dictionary, has been 

 engaged by Houghton Mifflin Company as editorial and pro- 

 motion adviser in the field of garden books and those in the 

 realm of natural science and outdoor life. Mr. Taylor will be at 

 the New York office of the company. 



Professor H. H. Love, of the department of plant breeding 

 at Cornell University, has returned from the Orient after a stay 

 of three and a half years. Professor Love went to China to serve 

 as adviser in agriculture to the Ministry of Industries, to direct 

 crop-improvement work in the provinces of Kiangsu and Che- 

 kiang, and to train Chinese in this work at the University of 

 Nanking and the National Central University of Nanking. 



