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NEWS ITEMS 



Mr. A. O. Garrett, head of the department of Botany, Salt 

 Lake High School, had an appointment and worked as Field 

 Assistant in the Blister Rust Control during the past summer. 



During the early part of the year Mr. Joseph F. Rock's 

 Monographic Study of the Hawaiian Lobelioideae, a splendidly 

 illustrated quarto volume, was issued by the Bernice Pauahi 

 Bishop Museum, Honolulu. 



The United States National Museum has just issued as volume 

 21 of its Contributions a Flora of the District of Columbia by A. 

 S. Hitchcock and Paul C. Standley. The authors had the assist- 

 ance of the botanists of Washington in the undertaking. Over 

 1600 species and 649 genera are noted in the book, which treats 

 of the species growing in the District and their distribution. 



Mr. Camillo Schneider, after spending several years in this 

 country and naming the willow collections in most of the larger 

 herbaria of the country, sailed for Vienna on September 3. 



Dr. Carl Skottsberg has assumed the directorship of the new 

 botanical garden at Goteborg, Sweden. 



