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Stewardson Brown, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 
delphia. 
Professor A. F. Blakslee has a year's leave of absence from the 
Connecticut Agricultural College. He has a temporary appoint- 
ment on the staff of the Carnegie Station for Experimental 
Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., N. Y., where he will 
spend the year in research work on the lower fungi. 
Dr. Ira D. Cardiff, professor of botany in Washburn College, 
has been appointed professor of plant physiology and plant 
physiologist of the Experiment Station of the Washington State 
College at Pullman. 
