NEWS AND NOTES 



Miss M. F. Barrett spent the month of July at the Garden 

 studying the collections of gelatinous fungi. 



Mr. H. S. Jackson has been appointed plant pathologist of the 

 agricultural experiment station at Corvallis, Oregon. 



Joseph E. Kirkwood, Ph.D., Columbia, 1903, has been appointed 

 assistant professor of forestry and botany in the University of 

 Montana. He was formerly professor of botany in Syracuse 

 University and for a time a botanical investigator for the Conti- 

 nental-Mexican Rubber Company. 



Mr. William T. Home, who was fellow in botany in Columbia 

 University in 1 903^04, has resigned his position as chief of the 

 department of plant pathology of the Cuban Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station and has accepted an appointment as assistant pro- 

 fessor of plant pathology in the University of California. 



Tropical Life announces a prize of fifty pounds sterling for an 

 essay embodying research work directed towards ascertaining 

 exactly what changes (together with their causes and whether 

 these changes occur during the fermentation process only or 

 while being dried) take place in the cacao bean between the time 

 that it leaves the pod until it is shoveled into the bag for export. 

 For further information those interested may address the editor 

 of Tropical Life, 112 Fenchurch St., E. C. London. 



Preliminary notes on the genus Usnea, as represented in New 

 England, by R. Heber Howe, Jr., appeared in the Torrey Bulletin 

 for June, 1909. The article contains a key to the species and 

 copious notes on their appearance and distribution, accompanied 

 by three plates of illustrations. 



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