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the Office of Cotton, Truck, and Forage Crop Disease Investiga- 

 tions, with headquarters at Brooklyn, New York. 



Mr. D. C. Neal has accepted the position of plant pathologist 

 for the Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, after re- 

 signing a similar position with the Georgia State Board of En- 

 tomology. 



Mr. C. M. Tucker, recently graduated from the University of 

 Missouri, has accepted a position with the Extension Division of 

 the Florida College of Agriculture and will conduct extension 

 work on the control of watermelon diseases. 



Dr. F. Ko'lpin Ravn, of Denmark, died suddenly of blood 

 poisoning, on May 25, at the home of his wife's parents at East 

 Orange, New Jersey. 



Mr. Julius Matz, who for the past year held the position of 

 assistant pathologist at the Insular Experiment Station at Rio 

 Piedras, Porto Rico, has been appointed chief of the Division of 

 Botany and Plant Pathology at the same station. 



Tagging instead of blazing trees is strongly recommended by 

 Weir in Phytopathology for July, 1920, — with evidence to sup- 

 port his opinion. 



Serious injury to Rhododendrons and Azaleas in the North- 

 west by Armillaria mellea was noted by Schmitz in the July num- 

 ber of Phytopathology. 



On a recent visit to Albany, typical specimens of Poria ornata 

 Peck and Poria subacida Peck were compared and the species 

 found to be identical. 



A list of ascomycetes new to Indiana, by Bruce Fink and 

 Sylvia Fuson, appeared in the Proceedings of the Indiana Acad- 



