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potatoes, of crucifers, of mangels and heels, and, finally, oi farm 

 animals. In each case is discussed (he sym[)loms, the cause 

 and the preventive measures, for I he most part with adequate 

 completeness. 



E. W. Olivk 

 NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. J. J. Tauhcnhaus, until recently associate plant pathologist 

 of the Delaware Experiment Station, will deliver the John 

 Lewis Russell lecture before the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society on March 27, on "Diseases of Sweet Peas." He has 

 recently been appointed head plant pathologist and physiologist 

 at Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, College Station, Texas, 

 where letters may be addressed after February 20. 



At the meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists held 

 at the University of Illinois at the end of December, Dr. Thomas 

 J. Burrill, formerly vice-president of the university, w^as elected 

 president of the society for the coming year. 



On December 15, 1915, Dr. C. Stuart Gager addressed the 

 Rhode Island Horticultural Society, at Providence, on the effects 

 of electricity and radium-rays on the growth of plants. 



Work is now under way for the completion of the laboratory 

 building and first range of plant houses at the Brooklyn Botanic 

 Garden, The completion of these buildings at this time was 

 made possible by the donation, by three friends of the garden. 

 of $100,000 on the condition that a like sum be appropriated for 

 the same purpose by the City of New York. 



At the seventh annual meeting of the American Phytopatho- 

 logical Society, held at Columbus, Ohio, from December 28 to 31, 

 the following officers were elected : President, Dr. Erwin F. Smith, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C; Vice-president, 

 Dr. Mel. T. Cook, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 New Brunswick, N. J.; Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. C. L. Shear, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C; Councilor, 

 Dr. F. D. Kern, Pennsylvania State College, State College, Pa. 

 Dr. E. C. Stakman, Minnesota Agricultural College, Minneapolis, 



