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At Cornell, Charles S. Wilson has been promoted to professor 

 of pomology. 



Mr. William E. Lawrence has been appointed instructor in 

 botany at the Oregon Agricultural College. 



Dr. C. F. Clark of the New York State College of Agriculture 

 has accepted a position with the Bureau ofjPlant Industry. 



Miss Edith M. Twiss (Ph.D. University of Chicago) has been 

 appointed assistant professor of botany in Washburn College, 

 Kansas. 



William Dana Hoyt (A.B., University of Georgia, and Ph.D., 

 Johns Hopkins) has been appointed instructor in botany at 

 Rutgers College. 



Professor Josephine Tilden has returned from her year in the 

 southern Pacific and resumed work at the University of Min- 

 nesota. 



Professor Guy West Wilson, formerly of Upper Iowa Univer- 

 sity, has been appointed assistant in vegetable pathology at the 

 North Carolina Experiment Station. 



Dr. Herman A. Spoehr, assistant in chemistry in the University 

 of Chicago, has been appointed a member of the staff of the 

 Department of Botanical Research of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington. By the aid of chemical methods Dr. Spoehr is to 

 investigate at the Desert Laboratory at Tucson certain problems 

 in plant physiology. 



The second annual summer session of the school of forestry of 

 the University of Georgia, in charge of Prof. Alfred Akerman, was 

 held during 8 weeks in June, July, and August in the long-leaf 

 pine forests in the eastern part of Alachua Co., Florida. The 

 school secured the use for the season of a large tract of cut-over 

 timber whose owners expect to restore it and make it a perpetual 

 source of revenue by rational methods of forest management. 

 In addition to the regular instruction in forestry, a course of 

 lectures on plant geography was given by Dr. R. M. Harper 

 (Florida State Geological Survey). Students from five states 

 attended. 



