NEWS AND NOTES 



Yale University has received from Mrs. Morris K. Jesup 

 $100,000 to establish the Morris K. Jesup chair of agriculture 

 in the Forestry School. 



Georgia has appropriated $10,000 for educational work at 

 farmers' institutes in the state. 



A new agricultural college and research institute has been 

 opened at Coimbatore in British India. 



Benjamin F. Lutman (A.B. Missouri, 1906; Ph.D. Wisconsin, 

 1909), recently assistant in botany in the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, has accepted a position as assistant botanist in the Vermont 

 Experiment Station. 



Dr. W. A. Murrill sailed for Mexico on December 2, to con- 

 tinue his studies of tropical American fungi. He was accompanied 

 by Mrs. Murrill. 



The new College of Agriculture of the University of the Philip- 

 pines, opened last June with a registration of about sixty. E. B. 

 Copeland is dean and professor of botany; H. Cuzner is professor 

 of agronomy. 



The University of Wisconsin has created a new department of 

 plant pathology, and has appointed as professor in charge Dr. 

 Lewis Ralph Jones, of the University of Vermont. Professor 

 Jones has been botanist of the Vermont Experiment Station since 

 1890. During this period he has carried on research work in 

 the bureau of plant industry in Washington, and in Europe. In 



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