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Wellesley has bought as a memorial the entire collection of 

 lichens which was made by the late Professor Clara E. Cum- 

 mings, Hunnewell professor of cryptogamic botany at Wellesley. 



Mr. F, A. Woods, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, has been ap- 

 pointed dean of the agricultural department of the University of 

 Minnesota. 



The establishment of an agricultural college at Mayaguez, 

 Porto Rico, has been authorized by the territorial legislature and 

 I. W. Hart, of the School of Agriculture, Sao Paulo, Brazil, has 

 been elected president. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe and Mr. Norman Taylor, of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, have just returned from trips in the tropics. 

 Dr. and Mrs. Howe were collecting in the Panama region and 

 Mr. and Mrs. Taylor in eastern Santo Domingo. 



Yale University has just received from Mrs. Russell Sage 

 ^650,000 to complete the purchase of Sachem's Woods, a large 

 tract of land which will furnish a new campus and give building 

 sites for new buildings, among them a biological laboratory. 



The subjects for the Walker prizes of 191 1 have been announced. 

 Those of interest to botanists are : A study of the structure, 

 development, and biology of some peat bog ; a comparative in- 

 vestigation of the Gnetales ; the relation of Mendelism to natural 

 selection ; and a monograph of some genus or group of fungi. 



Secretary Wilson, at a recent conference of the bureau chiefs 

 of the Department of Agriculture, appointed a committee to 

 report upon the amount of outside work which may be conducted 

 by government employes ; the Secretary feels that the hundreds' 

 now so employed should produce results for the government 

 before devoting part of their talents to outside interests. 



Mr. Gifford Pinchot, chief forester of the United States, has 

 resigned his position, and Professor Henry S. Graves of the 

 Yale Forestry School has been appointed in his place. As fores- 

 ter, Mr. Pinchot has rendered invaluable services to his country, 

 and it is unfortunate that administrative difficulties have made 

 such a change necessary. Fortunately, the present indications 



