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NEWS ITEMS 



Fred MacAllister has been appointed instructor in botany at 

 Cornell University. 



At Northwestern University William Logan Woodburn has 

 been appointed instructor in botany. 



Dr. R. M. Harper is continuing his work on the peat deposits 

 of Florida for the State Geological Survey. 



Charles H. Shattuck (Ph.D., Chicago) has been appointed 

 professor of forestry in the University of Idaho. 



Professor H. A. Edson, of the University of Vermont, has 

 accepted a position with the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Lord Strathcona, the chancellor of Edinburgh University, has 

 given $50,000 to endow a chair of agriculture in that institution. 



Prof. C. Stuart Gager, director of the new Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden, has joined Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, on his Cuban exploration trip. 



H. S. Jackson, assistant in plant pathology at the Oregon Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, has been appointed professor of 

 botany and plant pathology at the Oregon Agricultural College. 



J. B. Carruthers, assistant director of agriculture at Trinidad, 

 died in July. Mr. Carruthers formerly held similar positions in 

 Ceylon and with the Federated Malay States. 



Warren C. Norton has been made assistant in botany at the 

 North Carolina College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts; B. 

 B. Higgins, of that institution, has been made assistant at Cornell 

 University. 



Dr. Charles Hugh Shaw, formerly professor of botany at 

 Temple College, Medico-Chirurgical College (Philadelphia), and 

 Ursinus College, and assistant professor in the University of 

 Pennsylvania, was drowned August 8 near Revelstoke, British 

 Columbia. Dr. Shaw has for several seasons conducted botani- 

 cal expeditions into the Selkirks. 



Five research fellowships in the Henry Shaw School of Botany, 

 each carrying an allowance of $500 per year, have been estab- 



