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Mr. Guy West Wilson (M. S., Purdue University, 1906), who 

 during the past year has been engaged in mycological studies at 

 the New York Botanical Garden, has been appointed professor 

 of biology in the Upper Iowa University at Fayette, Iowa, and 

 expects to begin his work there next autumn. 



Fred Jay Seaver, university fellow in botany in Columbia Uni- 

 versity during i9o6-'o7, has been appointed assistant professor 

 of botany in the North Dakota Agricultural College and assist- 

 ant botanist of the agricultural experiment station at Fargo, 

 North Dakota. 



Mr. Edward Lyman Morris, who has been connected with the 

 high schools of Washington, D. C. since 1895, and since 1900 

 head of their biological departments, has been appointed curator 

 of natural sciences in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences, the appointment taking effect from July i. 



At the one hundred and fifty-third commencement of Colum- 

 bia University on June 12, those who received advanced degrees 

 in connection with the work carried on in the department of 

 botany were Elsie Kupfer, who was granted the degree of doctor 

 of philosophy, and Mary Morrell Brackett, Alice Adelaide Knox, 

 Helen Letitia Palliser, and Maud J. Staber, who received the 

 degree of master of arts. 



The fourth annual field "Symposium," in which the Philadel- 

 phia Botanical Club, the Washington Botanical Club, and the 

 Torrey Botanical Club will cooperate, will be held in the interest- 

 ing region about Swartswood Lake, Sussex Co., New Jersey, 

 July I to 8. The headquarters of the Symposium will be at the 

 Hotel Waldmere, in the town of Newton, where a rate of ^10 for 

 the week has been secured. Those who expect to attend are 

 requested to notify Mr. Joseph Crawford, president of the Phila- 

 delphia Botanical Club, 2824 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. 



The summer meeting of the Vermont Botanical Club will be 

 held in Pownal, July 2 and 3. Pownal is the extreme south- 

 western township of the state and it includes the only Vermont 

 stations for Liriodendron Tulipifera and several other species of 

 plants, and is said to be also the only known station in New 



