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Dr. Frederick S, Lee, Research Professor of Biology at Colum- 

 bia University, has been reelected president of the Board of 

 Managers of The New York Botanical Garden. 



The Rockefeller Foundation has aj^propriated $350,000 l(» 

 help finance the new abstract journal, International Biological 

 Aljstracts, which will begin publication tlie first of 1926. The 

 journal will give monthly abstracts of all publications of botany, 

 zoology, bacteriology and related sciences. 



Dr. W. A. Orton has resigned as Pathologist in charge of the 

 Office of Cotton, Truck and Forage Crop Diseases in the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, Washington to become Scientific Director 

 and General Manager of the Tropical Plant Research Founda- 

 tion. 



