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year, Professor Herbert J. Webber will act as director of the 

 College of Agriculture. 



Yale University has recently received from Mrs. Morris K. 

 Jesup ^100,000 to establish the Morris K. Jesup chair of agri- 

 culture in the Forestry School. 



Mr. Lee I. Knight (A.B., University of Illinois), formerly a 

 member of the botanical staff of the University of Illinois, has 

 been made associate professor of botany at Clemson College, 

 South Carolina. 



ToRREYA has not previously announced the death of M. J. lorns 

 (Ph.D., Cornell), for several years horticulturist of the Porto 

 Rico Experiment Station at Mayaguez ; he died of typhoid fever 

 in San Juan in May. 



The United States Bureau of Plant Industry has recently had 

 several noted visitors : Dr. Oskar Loew, formerly with the Porto 

 Rico Experiment Station ; Dr. H. T. Giissow, of the Experiment 

 Station at Ottawa ; and Mr. Aaronshon, director of the experi- 

 ment station in Palestine. 



At the University of Maine the following appointments have 

 been made : G. E. Simmons (M.S., Ohio State University) and 

 M. E. Sherwin (M.S., Missouri), assistant professors of agron- 

 omy; and W. R. Palmer (B.S., Oregon Agricultural College), 

 instructor in horticulture. 



