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United States Department of Agriculture, has gone to the West 
Indies for the purpose of studying and collecting grasses. He is 
accompanied by his son, Albert E. Hitchcock, as assistant. They 
will go first to Jamaica and later to various points in the Wind- 
ward Islands, probably visiting last the island of Trinidad. 
Dr. F. D. Heald, until recently professor of botany at the 
University of Texas, has moved to the University of Pennsylvania 
to accept the position of pathologist of the Chestnut Tree Blight 
Commission. | 
Professor Guy West Wilson, of the North Carolina Agricultural 
Experiment Station, was awarded a research scholarship at the 
New York Botanical Garden for the month of September to aid 
him in his researches on parasitic fungi. Mr. Wilson will con- 
tinue his work during the year as a graduate student of Columbia 
University. 
We learn from Science that the late Mr. Allan Octavian Hume, 
known as an ornithologist and botanist, bequeathed about 
£14,000 to the South London Botanical Institute, to which in 
1907 he gave £10,000. 
The botanical work at the University of North Dakota is 
being extended this year under the direction of Dr. Melvin A. 
Brannon. Miss Norma Pfeiffer, of the University of Chicago, and 
Miss Mabel Olson have been made assistants. А teaching and 
experimental greenhouse is being constructed and a liberal 
addition is being made to the equipment of the physiological 
laboratory. 
Dr. Vladimir Doubiansky, conservator of the Imperial botan- 
ical gardens at St. Petersburg, who is now travelling with the 
geographers, spent a day at the University of Washington, looking 
over the botanical equipment at that institution. 
Dr. Edith M. Twiss, assistant professor of botany and dean 
of women in Washburn College, has been promoted to the 
position of professor of botany. 
Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton have returned from the island of 
Bermuda, where they have been spending a month with Mr. 
