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trate by actual specimens the species figured by Rumphius in his 

 "Herbarium Amboinense" (1741-55). Many of Rumphius' 

 figures are crude, and as these have been the basis of many 

 species proposed by Linnaeus, Roxburgh, and other authors, 

 it has, in many cases, proved to be impossible properly to inter- 

 pret such species from Rumphius' figures alone. In many cases 

 actual specimens from Amboina are necessary. Dr. Robinson 

 plans to spend about 6 months in Amboina and in the neighbor- 

 ing islands. He has the cooperation and assistance of the Dutch 

 botanists at Buitenzorg, Java. The material collected will 

 later be distributed by the Bureau of Science in numbered sets 

 to various botanical institutions with reference both to the 

 names under which the plants were described and figured by 

 Rumphius, and to modern nomenclature. 



Professor F. H. Knowlton, of Washington, and Dr. Edward 

 W. Berry, of the Johns Hopkins University, are spending July 

 and August in the Rocky Mountains in paleobotanical work for 

 the United States Geological Survey. 



Dr. F. D. Kern has resigned his position at Purdue University 

 to accept one as plant pathologist at the Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, head of the department of botany in 

 Washington State College and plant physiologist for the Experi- 

 ment Station, has been appointed director of the Experiment 

 Station. He will still remain head of the department of botany 

 in the College. 



A. B. Massey (B.S., N. C. A. and M. College 1909), for the 

 past four years assistant professor of botany and bacteriology 

 at Clemson College, has been appointed assistant professor of 

 botany at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala., and will 

 enter upon his work there September 10. Professor Massey is 

 working in the laboratories of plant physiology at the University 

 of Chicago for the summer. 



Mr. Guy West Wilson has been appointed special agent of 

 the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry, to study the bark disease 

 of the chestnut. He will be associated with Dr. Mel T. Cook, 



