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University of Vermont, has accepted an appointment in the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. H. Metcalf, who has been traveling in Italy collecting re- 

 sistant varieties of rice, has resumed his work in this country at 

 the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



The biology department of Princeton University has received 

 about ten thousand specimens of mosses and hepatics from Dr. 

 Per Dusen and Dr. Hj. Mailer, of Sweden. 



The British Science Association is to meet at Winnipeg, August 

 25 to September i. Reduced rates from points east and west, 

 with side trips in Canada, are being offered, 



Mr. B. E. Dahlgren, formerly connected with the American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York, is now in Jamaica, 

 making studies for a series of models of representative tropical 

 plants for the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. 



Dr. M. H. Boye, a prominent chemist, died in March. Though 

 far from the most important of his discoveries, readers of Torreya 

 may be most interested in his process of refining cotton seed oil 

 (1845) thus securing the well-known colorless oil instead of the 

 former blackish thick liquid. 



The New York Botanical Garden offers from the income of the 

 Caroline and Olivia E. Stokes Fund for the Preservation of Native 

 Plants the following prizes for essays not exceeding 5,000 words •' 

 (/) ;^40.oo, (.2) ^25.00, (j) ;^i5.oo. The essays must be type- 

 written in duplicate and must reach the Garden not later than 

 June 20, 1909. 



Professor F. S. Earle reports through Science that the Cuban 

 administration has demanded the resignation of the staff of the 

 Cuban Agricultural Station — a repetition of the Cuban football 

 policy followed to satisfy the office seekers. Among the men thus 

 unjustly displaced are the following botanists whom Professor 

 P^arle " heartily recommends to any institutions having vacancies " 

 in their lines : Dr. H. Hasselbring, botany ; Prof Wm. T. Home 

 and Mr. J. S. Houser, vegetable pathology ; and Prof C. F. 

 Austin and Mr. C. F. Kinman, horticulture. 



