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NEWS ITEMS 
The Rocky Mountain Herbarium has had collectors during 
the season in several of the western states. Professor Aven 
Nelson, accompanied by two of his students, J. Francis Macbride 
and Dorman Bennitt, spent the latter part of June and the early 
part of July in southwestern Idaho and northern Nevada. 
Through the courtesy of the Forest Service men connected with 
the Humboldt Forest, Mr. Macbride was enabled to remain in 
the field throughout the season, working various districts in that 
forest. The collections from these two states are in duplicate 
and will be worked up as rapidly as circumstances will permit. 
Mr. Ernest P. Walker, another student of the University of 
Wyoming, has been collecting since late June, in southwestern 
Colorado, in Paradox Valley. He has extended his observations 
into the adjacent mountains of Utah. These collections are also 
in duplicate, and, it 15 hoped, will be available before the end of 
the school year. 
Dr. H. W. Anderson has been appointed Rose professor of 
botany at Wabash College, and Professor J. S. Caldwell, of the 
University of Nashville, has accepted the professorship of botany 
in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. 
R. Heber Howe, Jr., of the Thoreau Museum, has received the 
degree of Docteur de l'Universite from the Sorbonne for research 
carried on at that university during 1911-12. His thesis was 
on the “Classification de la Famille des Usneaceae dans l'Amer- 
ique du Nord." 
The following appointments are announced at New Brunswick, 
N. J.: Mr. J. P. Helyar, seed analyst of N. J. Agricultural 
Experiment Station and instructor in botany at Rutgers College; 
Mr. C. A. Schwarze, assistant state plant pathologist, М. 1. 
State Board of Agriculture; Мг. С. W. Martin, assistant plant 
pathologist for the experiment station; and Miss Marion G. 
Pleasants, laboratory assistant in the botanical laboratory of 
the experiment station. 
Miss Jean Broadhurst, of Teachers College, Columbia Uni- 
