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At Rutgers College, Messrs. Henry Clay Lint, and C. R. 

 Fellers have been appointed Research Fellows in Botany; and 

 Messrs. R. E. Curtis, S. A. Waksman, W. S. Porte, Orville 

 Schultz, W. H. Martin, W. S. Krout, H. E. Carney, A. C. Foster, 

 and F. P. Schlatter, have been appointed Research Assistants in 

 Botany. 



Dr. John W. Shive (Johns Hopkins University) has been ap- 

 pointed Plant Physiologist in the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. 



John P. Helyar, Instructor in Plant Pathology, Rutgers College, 

 has been promoted to assistant professor. 



Mr. George W. Martin, Assistant in Botany in Rutgers College 

 for the past two years, will take a leave of absence for graduate 

 study in the University of Chicago. 



Dr. Daniel DaCruz, of Portugal, who has been studying at the 

 Catholic University of America, visited the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden during the last week of June en route to Chicago, the 

 Yellowstone and San Francisco. Dr. DaCruz is interested chiefly 

 in the cytological side of heredity. 



At the recent symposium of the Torrey Club, held with the 

 Philadelphia Botanical Club at Fleetwood, Pa., stations of in- 

 terest were found for the persimmon, the papaw and Pinus vir- 

 giniana. Near Lenhartsville, on the southerly slope of the Blue 

 Mountains, all these trees were found. So far as eastern Penn- 

 sylvania is concerned these stations are near farthest north of 

 the species. From eight to ten persons attended the symposium, 

 and a local naturalist, Mr. W. H. Leibelsperger, acted as guide 

 on most of the excursions. 



