NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



[Unsigned notes are by the editor] 



Mr. W. S. Fields, formerly with the Bureau of Plant Industry 

 in Mississippi as extension pathologist, has been appointed patho- 

 logical inspector for the Federal Horticultural Board, and is at 

 Washington, D. C. 



Mr. G. F. Gravatt has returned to his position as assistant 

 pathologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, having recently been 

 discharged from the Navy. He will work on the white pine blis- 

 ter rust and the chestnut bark disease. 



Mr. A. H. Gilbert has entered the joint employ of the Ver- 

 mont State Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, with headquarters at Burlington. Until lately 

 he held the position of extension pathologist for the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry in Vermont. 



Mr. A. C. Foster, formerly with the North Carolina Agricul- 

 tural College as assistant in plant pathology, has been released 

 from military service and has accepted a position at the Wiscon- 

 sin Agricultural Experiment Station, Madison, Wisconsin, to 

 investigate cucumber diseases. 



Mr. W. A. McCubbin, formerly in charge of the Dominion 

 Laboratory of Plant Pathology at St. Catherines, Ontario, has 

 become deputy director of plant industry for the Pennsylvania 

 Department of Agriculture at Harrisburg. He is located tem- 

 porarily at Freeland, where he is assisting in the administration 

 of quarantine regulations for restricting the spread of the potato 

 wart disease. 



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