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Lloyd, recently appointed MacDonald Professor of Botany. His 
subject was “Тһе Artificial Ripening of Bitter Fruits." 
The teaching staff of the Department of Botany at Syracuse 
University has been increased by the addition of Instructor 
Henry F. A. Meier, B.A. (Indiana University). Mr. Meier has 
had extended experience in teaching botany in the high schools 
of Indiana and was Sec.-Treas. of the Indiana Science Teachers' 
Association. The elementary course in Botany at Syracuse this 
fall has 225 students, the second year, 60 students. 
Mr. A. J. Pieters, who has spent the past year studying the 
biology of water plants at Heidelberg, has been appointed 
instructor in botany at the University of Michigan. 
Mr. F. C. Gates is in Manila at the University of the Philip- 
pines at Los Вайоѕ. He is teaching and doing research work for 
the United States Department of Agriculture. 
Dr. Harry B. Humphrey, for three years professor of plant 
pathology in the State College of Washington, has been advanced 
to the position of head of the Department of Botany. 
We learn from the Evening Post (26 October) that the corpora- 
tion of Yale University has appointed Hugo de Vries as one of 
the Woodward lecturers for 1912-13. 
An important acquisition to the collections of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden has just been negotiated whereby it will receive 
living specimens of more than 400 species of woody plants of the 
E. Н. Wilson collections from China. These were secured during 
four expeditions to the republic and comprise the most important 
collections of living plants ever brought from that country. 
The Arnold Arboretum by whom the expeditions were conducted 
retains the most complete set. Other collections of a more 
general nature have also been received from the Arboretum and 
from the Park Commission at Rochester, N. Y., where the public 
park system is perhaps the richest, botanically, in America. 
On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 31, in the presence 
of Park Commissioner Stover, Dr. N. L. Britton and a large 
gathering of spectators, the “oldest and biggest tree in Man- 
hattan" was dedicated. The specimen is a giant tulip tree 
