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Dr. Carl Hartley, formerly pathologist in the Office of Forest 

 Pathology Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, has resigned 

 to take a position in the Institute for Plant Diseases at Buiten- 

 zorg, Java. 



Dr. W. H. Rankin, for five years assistant professor of plant 

 pathology in the New York State College of Agriculture at Cor- 

 nell University, has been appointed officer-in-charge, Field Labo- 

 ratory of Plant Pathology, St. Catharines, Ontario, in the Cana- 

 dian Department of Agriculture. 



Mr. Emery D. Eddy, who has been engaged during the past 

 year in the investigation of diseases of market vegetables for the 

 Department of Agriculture, recently resigned his position to take 

 up commercial work. 



Professor Guy West Wilson has returned to the department of 

 biology in Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa. While at 

 Clemson College in South Carolina, he collected a number of 

 interesting fungi, an account of which will soon appear in 

 Mycologia. 



Oak mildew, according to Poeteren, may be effectively checked 

 for an entire season by a single application of lime-sulphur spray, 

 if used when the mildew begins to develop vigorously. 



A new and effective disinfectant for pear blight is said by 

 Reimer to be a 10 per cent, solution of commercial formaldehyde 



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