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NEWS ITEMS 



The new keeper of the Kiel Botanical Institute and garden is 

 Dr. Ernst Kiister, of Halle. 



After the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909) is over, the 

 forestry building is to be given to the University of Washington. 



Dr. Charles E. Bessey, dean of the industrial college of the 

 University of Nebraska, has been made head dean of the 

 University. 



A biological station is to be established at Devil's Lake, North 

 Dakota, under the charge of Professor M. A. Brannon of the 

 State University. 



Mr. J. R. Johnston, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has re- 

 cently returned from Cuba, where he has been studying the bud- 

 rot of the cocoanut. 



Field classes in the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, are to be con- 

 ducted this spring by M. J. G. Jack, for those interested in native 

 and foreign trees and shrubs of New England. 



The agricultural colleges and experiment stations of Europe 

 are to be visited this summer by Professor F. L. Stevens, of the 

 North Carolina College and Experiment Station. 



Among the instructors of the Oklahoma Agricultural College 

 affected by the Board's summary and wholesale dismissal of 

 April, 1908, are Professor O. M. Morris, botany and horticulture, 

 and Professor E. E. Balcomb, agriculture. 



McGill University at the opening of McDonald College will 

 confer the degree of LL.D. upon two members of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture : Hon. James Wilson, Secre- 

 tary, and Mr. Gifford Pinchot, Chief Forester. 



The Luther Burbank's Products Company which, according 

 to the March Torreya, was to distribute Mr. Burbank's new 

 varieties, was not successfully launched. Mr. Burbank will still, 

 fortunately, continue the distribution of his new varieties. 



Dr. George T. Moore, formerly connected with the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, has accepted the newly created professor- 



