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given a year's leave of absence, to accept under temporary ap- 

 pointment the post of assistant director of the Botanical Gardens 

 at Singapore, in charge of experimental work in tropical 

 agronomy. 



Dr. L. H. Pennington, of the college of forestry of Syracuse 

 University, has been put in charge of the white-pine blister rust 

 survey for the State of Michigan, as the representative of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. His headquarters, when not in the 

 field, are at the department of botany, Michigan Agricultural 

 College, East Lansing, Mich. 



The University of Nebraska has conferred the doctorate of 

 science degree on Patrick Joseph O'Gara, chief in charge of 

 agricultural and smelter waste investigations for the American 

 Smelting and Refining Company at Salt Lake City. For the past 

 four years Dr. O'Gara has been making extensive investigations 

 on the effects of gaseous and solid smelter wastes on vegetable 

 and animal life. 



Bulletin 510 of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 by C. J. Humphrey, deals with timber storage conditions in the 

 eastern and southern states with reference to decay problems. 

 The author discusses present conditions and methods of improv- 

 ing them ; he also mentions and briefly describes a number of 

 fungi that attack stored timber. The bulletin is an exceedingly 

 valuable one, consisting of 43 pages and 41 figures. ♦ 



A new manual of fruit diseases has just appeared.* This 

 book treats the principal fungous diseases of garden and orchard 

 fruits, the hosts, for convenience, being taken up in alphabetical 

 order and the diseases in the order of their importance. This is 

 the first attempt in America to group together in one volume all 

 the available information on this subject and to put it in such 

 form that it is readily available and understandable to the prac- 



* Manual of Fruit Diseases by Lex R. Hestler and Herbert Hice Whetzel. 

 Pp. i-xx + 1-462 with 126 figures. The Macmillan Company, price $2.00. 



