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so as to give no internal evidence of authorship, and should be 

 sent to the editor of the Plant World, Dr. Forrest Shreve, 

 Tucson, Ariz., by December i. The Plant World reserves the 

 right to publish any papers submitted in the contest. 



Dr. Howard Spencer Reed, now professor of plant pathology 

 and bacteriology in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, has been 

 appointed professor of plant physiology in the Citrus Experi- 

 ment Station and Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, 

 recently established by the University of California at River- 

 side, California. Dr. F. D. Fromme, formerly of Purdue Uni- 

 versity has taken Dr. Reed's place at the Virginia Polytechnic 

 Institute. 



Dr. H. M. Fitzpatrick, assistant professor of plant pathology 

 at Cornell University, is spending three months at the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden. 



Professor R. J. Pool has been appointed acting head of the 

 department of botany at the University of Nebraska, to fill the 

 place made vacant by the death of Dr. C. E. Bessey. 



Dr. Alfred Dachnowski has accepted a position with the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, where he will continue his work on 

 peat soils and their agricultural utilization. 



Dr. M. A. Howe of the New York Botanical Garden has gone 

 to Porto Rico to continue studies on the marine Algae of that 

 island. 



At a meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment 

 of the City of New York, held June i8, the sum of one hundred 

 thousand dollars was appropriated for the completion of the 

 building and greenhouses of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 

 The appropriation was • conditional on a similar sum being 

 raised by private subscription. This amount was contributed 

 by Mr. Alfred T. White, chairman of the Botanic Garden Com- 

 mittee, and two other friends of the garden who wish to remain 

 anonymous. 



