NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



[Unsigned notes are by the editor] 



Professor F. S. Earle spent the summer months at his home in 

 western Cuba, but expects to return to Porto Rico in September. 



Dr. H. E. Thomas has resigned his position at Cornell Uni- 

 versity to accept one with Professor Kern at Pennsylvania State 

 College. 



Dr. F. J. Seaver accompanied Dr. Britton to Trinidad last 

 February and returned with a splendid collection of fungi, in 

 which the parasitic forms especially are well represented. 



Mr. Rush P. Marshall, formerly Pathological Inspector, Office 

 of Investigations in Forest Pathology, has been engaged to work 

 on the potato wart disease for the Federal Horticultural Board. 



Dr. Alfred H. W. Povah has resigned as assistant professor of 

 Forest Botany and Pathology in the New York State College of 

 Forestry to accept the position of associate professor of Plant 

 Pathology and associate pathologist at the Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute, Auburn, Alabama. 



Mr. Paul V. Siggers has accepted the position of Pathologist 

 for the United Fruit Company and will be stationed at Changuin- 

 ola, Panama, investigating diseases of the cocoanut palm and 

 cacao. He was formerly Scientific Assistant for the Office of 

 Investigations in Forest Pathology. 



Mr. E. J. Wortley has resigned his position as Director of 

 Agriculture in Bermuda to accept a similar one in Nyasaland. 

 Mr. E. A. McCallan, a native Bermudian and a graduate of the 

 Ontario Agricultural College, succeeds him as Director at the 

 Agricultural Station in Bermuda. 



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