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A new agricultural college and research institute has been 

 opened at Coimbatore in British India. 



John Putnam Helyar (B.S, Vermont, 1909) has been appointed 

 instructor in botany in the University of Vermont. 



Dr. W. A. Murrill of the New York Botanical Garden spent 

 July collecting mushrooms in Virginia. 



Professor Winthrop John VanLeuven Osterhout (A.B. Brown, 

 1893 ; Ph.D. California, 1899), o^ the University of California, has 

 accepted a call to Harvard as assistant professor of botany. 



Professor Emil Hansen, the physiological botanist, died in 

 August, at the age of sixty-seven. Professor Hansen was best 

 known for his work on microorganisms and alcoholic ferments, 



Mr. Charles Louis Pollard, chief curator of the Museum of 

 the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, and Mr. 

 George P. Englehardt, of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, have 

 returned from a collecting trip in North Carolina. 



Benjamin F. Lutman (A.B. Missouri, 1906; Ph.D. Wisconsin, 

 1909), recently assistant in botany in the University of Wisconsin, 

 has accepted a position as assistant botanist in the Vermont Ex- 

 periment Station. 



The new College of Agriculture of the University of the Philip- 

 pines, opened June last with a registration of about sixty. E. B. 

 Copeland is dean and professor of botany ; H. Cuzner is pro- 

 fesssor of agronomy. 



Edward Murray East (B.S. Illinois, 1900; Ph.D. Illinois, 

 1907), of the Connecticut Experiment Station, New Haven, has 

 been appointed assistant professor of experimental plant morphol- 

 ogy in Harvard University. 



Burton Edward Livingston (B.S. Michigan, 1898; Ph.D. 

 Chicago, 1 901), of the department of botanical research of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, has accepted an appoint- 

 ment as professor of plant physiology in Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity. 



Miss Winifred J. Robinson of Vassar College has just re- 

 turned from the Hawaiian Islands where she spent the summer 



