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Dr. R. A. Jehle, formerly extension plant pathologist for the 

 North Carolina State College of Agriculture, has accepted a sim- 

 ilar position with the College of Agriculture of the University of 

 Maryland, succeeding Prof. C. E. Temple, who has become pro- 

 fessor of plant pathology in the University of Maryland. 



Mr. M. A. Carleton, formerly in charge of the Office of Cereal 

 Investigations, United States Department of Agriculture, and 

 recently plant pathologist for the United States Grain Corpora- 

 tion, is now employed as plant pathologist for the United Fruit 

 Company, with headquarters at Bocas del Toro, Panama. 



Mr. R. W. Goss, formerly assistant pathologist in cereal dis- 

 ease investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, with headquarters 

 at Madison, Wisconsin, has become assistant plant pathologist at 

 the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station, where he will 

 take up the study of the potato Fusarmm problems of that region. 



Dr. O. F. Burger, formerly pathologist at the California Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Riverside, and recently engaged in 

 the investigation of fruit and truck crop diseases in the United 

 States Bureau of Plant Industry, has become head pathologist 

 at the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, Gainesville. He 

 will give special attention to the study of transportation diseases 

 of truck and citrus crops. 



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