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NEWS ITEMS 



Miss Anna Murray Vail, librarian of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, is in France, where she expects to spend the summer. 



At the University of Chicago, Dr. Charles J. Chamberlain 

 and Dr. Henry C. Cowles have been promoted to assistant pro- 

 fessorships in botany. 



Dr. J. W. Blankinship, recently professor of botany in the 

 Montana College of Agriculture at Bozeman, now has a position 

 at the Missouri Botanical Garden. 



The seventh annual meeting and exhibition of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York was held at the New York Botanical Garden 

 on Wednesday and Thursday, May 8 and 9. 



Dr. H. N. Whitford, of the Forestry Bureau of the Philippine 

 Government, was scheduled to sail from Manila on April 15, on 

 a leave of absence to visit the United States. 



Dr. Herbert J. W' ebber, recently chief of the division of plant- 

 breeding investigations of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 has begun his new duties as professor of plant biology in Cornell 

 University. 



It is stated in the April number of TJic Plant World \\\dX Mr. 

 Carl F. Baker recently botanist of the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station of Cuba has been elected professor of botany in Pomona 

 College, Claremont, California. 



Dr. Per Axel Rydberg, curator of the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, delivered an address at Augustana Col- 

 lege, Rock Island, Illinois, on May 13, in connection with exer- 

 cises commemorative of the two hundreth anniversary of the 

 birth of Linnaeus. 



Dr. Frederic E. Clements, professor of plant physiology in 

 the University of Nebraska, was on May 2 unanimously elected 

 professor of botany in the University of Minnesota, succeeding 

 Conway MacMillan, who resigned this chair about a year ago in 

 order to engage in business pursuits. 



Mr. Ellsworth Bethel, instructor in biology in the East Side 

 High School of Denver, Colorado, has installed his collection of 

 Colorado plants, said to be probably the most complete in exist- 



