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the University of Minnesota, 1899 — 1900. biologist and entom- 

 ologist at Clemson, 1900 — 1. He is the inventor of the famous 

 "Puffed Eice" and other starchy products. He is now the botan- 

 ist and experimental chemist of a company, which is engaged in 

 developing his discoveries and inventions. The following syste- 

 matic and economic papers are from his hand: 



Diseases of Plants, 1898. 



A Xew Tilhiia parasitic on Orysa sa'iva, 1899. 



Rice Blast and a Ne'sv Smut on the Eice Plant, 1899. 



TlUetia horrida Tak. on Rice Plant in South Carolina, 1902. 



Dasyscypha resinaria, causing the canker ^owth on Abies halsamea, 1902. 



T'hilip Domelt was born at Attica, Indiana, the 3rd of Decem- 

 ber 1864, his father being a Swedish-American clergyman. He 

 received his degree of A. B in 1885, A. M. in 1 895, and Ph. D. in 

 1900, taught at Augustana College, Pock Island, 111., in 1889 — 

 90; at Hope Academy, Minnesota, in 1890 — 1; at Upsala College, 

 Brooklyn, 1896 — 7: was professor of sciences at Muhlenberg Col- 

 lege, AUentown, Pa., in 1896 — 1902; was botanical assistant at 

 the United States National Museum in 1902; and is now instruc- 

 tor in the New York High Schools since that year. He is a zool- 

 ogist as weU as botanist. The follomng botanical publications 

 are from his hand: 



Addition to the Flora of Stat«?n Island. 1905. 

 Botanical Notes, 1906. 



Distribution of Ferns on Staten Island, 1906. 

 North American Species of Calceolaria, 1906. 

 Observations on the Occurrence of Boott's Fern, 1906. 



Ettas cNslson was born in Sweden, Sept. 7th, 1876, came as a 

 boy to America, studied at the University of Wyoming, were he 

 took his M. A. degree in 1899. He was a pupil of Prof. A. Nelson. 

 He has been a scientific aid in the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 in 1900, and assistant in Horticulture and Agrostology at the 

 University of Wyoming in 1 901 — 5, and is now the superintendent 

 of the Experimental Farm at Bend, Oregon, since 1905. He has 

 made extensive collections, especially in Wyoming and neighbor- 

 ing states. He has made a speciality of grasses and forage plants. 



Revision of the Western Xorth American Phloxes, 1899. 



Some New "Western Species. 1899. 



Some new species of Wyoming Plants, 1900. 



Shrubs of Wyoming, 1902. 



Notes on certain species of Antetinaria 1902. • 



