NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



Max W. Gardner, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has been 

 appointed instructor in plant pathology in the University of 

 Michigan. 



F. D. Heald has been appointed head of the new department of 

 plant pathology recently established by the regents of the State 

 College of Washington. 



W. J. Spillman, of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, has been appointed dean of the newly created college of 

 agriculture at the State College of Washington, where he will 

 enter upon his duties on April first. 



J. E. Fries, of Birmingham, Alabama, called at the Garden on 

 January 21 with a handsome specimen of the parasitic gill-fungus, 

 Asterophora Clavus, preserved in alcohol, which he donated to the 

 Garden collection. While here, he took a full subscription to 

 North American Flora. 



A number of appointments have recently been made at the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry in Washington : R. A. Jehle, from 

 Florida; J. K. K. Link, from the University of Nebraska; J. C. 

 Walker, from the University of Wisconsin; W. W. Diehl, from 

 Clemson College, South Carolina ; D. C. Neal, from Alabama ; 

 and H. F. Bergman, from the University of Minnesota. 



Phytopathology is now to appear monthly, at $5.00 a year. 

 The January number, issued late in January, is very handsome 

 and gives promise of even greater success for this important 

 publication. 



