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Alaskan fossil plants at the United States National Museum for 

 several months, has returned to New York. 



Dr. Adeline Ames, Ph.D. (Cornell, '12), has been appointed 

 assistant forest pathologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry at 

 Washington. 



Dr. Herbert J. Webber, of Cornell University, has resigned to 

 accept the position of director of the Citrus Experiment Station 

 and dean of the Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture of the 

 University of California. 



We learn from Science (27 December) that Dr. J. M. Greenman 

 has resigned from the University of Chicago and the Field 

 Museum of Natural History to accept the position of curator of 

 the herbarium at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The appoint- 

 ment became effective on January i. 



