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Detroit, in the library of Parke, Davis and Company, at the 
Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, and at the Ohio 
State University. 
Dr. Edgar W. Olive, professor of botany in the State College 
of South Dakota and state botanist, has been appointed curator 
at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, to have charge of the depart- 
ment of public instruction and also of the work in plant pathology. 
The appointment takes effect on September 1, next. 
Dr. C. J. Chamberlin of the University of Chicago has just 
returned from Australia and South Africa where he has been 
making a field study of the oriental cycads, and collecting 
material for a detailed morphological investigation. 
