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will spend at Cornell University. His place at Albany is being 

 supplied in the interim by Miss Laura A. Polk, a graduate of 

 Wellesley College, 19 13. 



Cleveland Abbe, who built up the United States Weather 

 Service, and for many years took hourly records of the weather 

 before the days of automatic recording instruments, died recently 

 in Washington. In 1905 Dr. Abbe brought out the " First 

 report on the relations between climates and crops," which was 

 of great interest to the ecologists and plant geographers. In 

 this book he summarized all the information which had accumu- 

 lated in regard to the influence of the length of the growing 

 season upon living plants; and the methods there outlined have 

 been widely used both in botanical and agricultural works. 



Dr. Alban Stewart, of the department of botany, University of 

 Wisconsin, has been elected professor of botany and bacteriology 

 in the Florida State College for Women, Tallahassee, Florida. 



