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Ralph W. Curtis, B.S.A., who was for four years assistant 

 superintendent of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, 

 has been appointed assistant professor of landscape art in the 

 college of agriculture of Cornell University. 



According to the Evening Post Carlton McDowell, Ph.D., has 

 been appointed instructor in botany in the Shefheld Scientific 

 School. 



Dr. E. D. Clark, one of the board of editors of the club, has 

 resigned his position at the Cornell Medical College to accept 

 one at the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington. 



On September 22 the ofhces, library and herbarium of the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden were moved frorii the quarters occu- 

 pied for the last three years in the Brooklyn Institute Museum 

 building, to the first section of the new laboratory building, 

 located in the garden. Only one fifth of the building is now 

 completed, and a small portion of the conservatories. On 

 September first the staff of the garden was increased by the 

 addition of Dr. O. E. White, as assistant curator of plant breed- 

 ing. Miss Ellen Eddy Shaw, as instructor, and Miss Helen Vir- 

 ginia Stelle, as librarian. During August the garden purchased 

 the private herbarium of Mr. A. A. Heller, formerly of Reno, 

 Nevada. 



A. F. Blakeslee, who has been spending a year's leave of 

 absence in research work in the Carnegie Station for Experi- 

 mental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., has returned to 

 the Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn. 



Miss Florence A. McCormick has been appointed adjunct pro- 

 fessor of agricultural botany in the Univerisity of Nebraska. 



