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Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. At the same institution 

 Mr. H. Clay Lint, M.S. 1912 Kansas Agricultural College, has 

 accepted the Industrial Fellowship in plant pathology, which has 

 been recently established. 



Dr. Emil P. Sandsten has resigned the professorship of 

 horticulture in Alabama Polytechnic Institute to accept a sim- 

 ilar position in Colorado State College, where he began work 

 August I. 



On July 27 the members of the international phytogeographic 

 excursion, under the direction of Dr. H. C. Cowles, began active 

 work by a visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in the morning 

 and the Hempstead plains in the afternoon. The next two days 

 were spent in the pine-barrens of New Jersey, and on Wednesday, 

 July 30, the New York Botanical Garden and Columbia Univer- 

 sity were visited. Many local botanists participated in these 

 trips, also some Philadelphia botanists went on the pine-barren 

 trip. The excursion left on Wednesday evening to return about 

 the end of September, after touring most of the United States. 



The honorary degree of master of arts has been conferred by 

 Harvard University upon Mr. Alfred Rehder, of the Arnold 

 Arboretum. 



Professor A. S. Hitchcock, of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, is spending the months of July and August in 

 field work in Arizona, Nevada and Utah. 



The address of the editor of Torreya during August will be 

 Howe's Cave, Schoharie Co., N. Y., thereafter as usual. 



