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Minn., was elected a member of council vice Dr. Mel. T. Cook. 

 Dr. W. A. Orton was elected one of the chief editors of Phyto- 

 pathology, and Professor H. T. Gussow, Dr. C. W. Edgerton, Dr. 

 E. C. Stakman, and Dr. V. B. Stewart were elected associate 

 editors. 



Dr. Irving E. Melhus, formerly pathologist, office of cotton 

 and truck diseases of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has assumed 

 charge of the work in plant pathology in the Iowa State College. 



Dr. H. S. Graves, the government forester, in his report to 

 Secretary of Agriculture Houston, for 1915, says: "The nursery 

 and plant station at Halsey, Nebraska, has been designated the 

 Bessey Nursery in honor of the late Dr. C. E. Bessey, of the 

 University of Nebraska, a leading American ecologist and for 

 many years active in promoting reforestation in Nebraska." 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and Mr. Percy Wilson, of the New 

 York Botanical Garden, sailed for Cuba on January 29. Most 

 of their explorations will be in western Cuba and on the Isle of 

 Pines. 



The herbarium and other botanical collections of Dr. E. B. 

 Southwick, comprising many thousands of specimens have been 

 presented by him to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The col- 

 lection is rich in woods, and in seeds of hundreds of native Ameri- 

 can and foreign plants. 



Professor H. H. Whetzel, of Cornell University, and Dr. E. W. 

 Olive, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, will sail for Porto Rico 

 on February 19 to collect fungi and to study plant diseases. 



The summer mountain laboratory of the University of Colorado 

 will hold its eighth annual session at Tolland, Colorado, from 

 June 26 to August 5, 1916. Courses are offered in botany and 

 zoology; all are chiefly of an ecological nature. The botanical 

 work will be in charge of Professor Francis Ramaley, who may 

 be addressed at Boulder, Colorado, for additional information. 



Miss Grace Emily Cooley (Ph.D., Zurich), who had been for 

 several years a teacher of biology in the East Side High School 

 of Newark, New Jersey, died in Newark on January 27, 1916. 



