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Office of Experiment Stations. Mr. Henry F. Schultz, formerly 
of the United States Office of Seed and Plant Introduction, will 
have charge of sub-tropical introductions. Mr. James H. 
Cameron, formerly of the National Botanical Garden, will have 
charge of the propagating garden. 
Dr. W. D. Hoyt has retired from his position at Rutgers College 
and will take up work at the Johns Hopkins University. He 
will spend the year principally in working on his report on the 
marine algae of Beaufort, N. C., for the United States Bureau of 
Fisheries. 
Professor J. C. Arthur and Dr. Frank D. Kern spent a month 
during the past summer in field work in Colorado in continuation 
of their investigations of the Uredinales. The time was chiefly 
spent in the southern and southwestern portions of the state in 
localities not visited by them on previous trips. 
Dr. J. N. Rose and Wm. R. Fitch spent about three weeks of 
September in southwestern Kansas studying especially the 
Cactaceae of that region. They also collected about 160 numbers 
of plants in that general locality. 
_ Mr. Charles W. Finley, who for three years has been assistant 
in natural science in the School of Education, University of 
Chicago, has been appointed head of the department of biology 
of the State Normal School at Macomb, Illinois. 
Dr. George B. Rigg, instructor in botany in the University of 
Washington, is engaged in work on the kelps of the Puget Sound 
region under an appointment from the United States Bureau of 
Soils. The investigation concerns the economic utilization of 
these kelps with special reference to their use as a source of 
potash fertilizer. 
Dr. Roland M. Harper, of the Alabama Geological Survey, 
who spent the summer at the Biological Station of the University 
of Michigan at Douglass Lake, returned home through Illinois, 
visiting friends at the University of Chicago and the University 
of Illinois. 
On the anniversary of Founders Day at McGill University, 
October 8, the university lecture was delivered by Francis E. 
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