NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



Professor J. C. Arthur, one of the editors of Mycologia and 

 a large contributor both to it and North American Flora, was 

 elected President of the Botanical Society of America at the 

 recent meeting in Baltimore. 



Mr. James Birch Rorer is now Mycologist of the Associacion 

 de Agricultores del Ecuador, with headquarters at Guayaquil. 



Dr. Charles T. Gregory, formerly assistant professor of plant 

 pathology at Cornell University, has entered the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry as extension pathologist in Truck and Forage Crop 

 Diseases for the State of Indiana, with headquarters at Purdue 

 University. 



Mr. W. H. Tisdale, formerly scientific assistant in cereal 

 disease investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, has become the 

 head of the department of botany and plant pathology in the 

 North Carolina College of Agriculture. 



Dr. George M. Reed has resigned his position as professor of 

 botany in the University of Missouri to take up work on the smuts 

 of cereals as a pathologist of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Mr. J. H. Muncie, formerly assistant in plant pathology at the 

 Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and recently patholo- 

 gist with the Plant Disease Survey, Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 has accepted the position of pathologist at the new field laboratory 

 of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station at Girard, 

 Pennsylvania. 



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