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From the Evening Post (November 23) we learn that the post 
of research assistant on the staff of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden, made vacant by the resignation of Dr. R. R. Gates, has 
been filled by Dr. George R. Hill, who received his undergraduate 
degree from the Utah Agricultural College. Miss Margaret De 
Merritt, of New Hampshire College; A. R. Davis, of Pomona 
College; L. O. Overholz, of Miami University; J. S. Cooley, of 
Randolph-Macon College and Virginia Polytechnic and W. H. 
Emig, of Washington University, are the Rufus J. Lackland 
research fellows in the Henry Shaw School of Botany during the 
present year. 
H. E. Stevens, pathologist to the Florida Experiment Station, 
has definitely established, according to Professor P. H. Rolfs, 
the fact that Phomopsis Citri Fawcett is the causative agent of 
melanose in Citrus trees. 
Dr. Wilhelm Miller, for many years editor of Country Life 
in America, and co-editor with L. H. Bailey of the Cyclopedia of 
American Horticulture, has severed his connection with Double- 
` day, Page and Company to accept the position of Assistant 
Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois. 
Mr. W. G. Stover, recently at the Oklahoma Agricultural 
College, has been appointed instructor in botany at the Ohio State 
University, Columbus, Ohio. 
Nevada S. Evans, graduate of the University of Minnesota 
and expert in the seed laboratory of Northrup, King & Co., has 
accepted the position of Assistant Botanist in the North Dakota 
Agricultural Experiment Station, and will report for work in 
the Pure Seed Laboratory of that institution December 1. 
Professor E. S. Reynolds, of the University of Tennessee, 
Knoxville, has accepted the position of Associate Professor of 
Botany at the North Dakota Agricultural College. Mr. Rey- 
nolds took up his new work at the Agricultural College, No- 
vember I. 
A hundred Kny charts have just been added to the botanical 
equipment of Baylor University, Waco, Texas. 
