NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 
Professor A. J. Pieters describes and illustrates Achlea Kleb- 
siana sp. nov. and Saprolegnia Kauffmaniana sp. nov. in the De- 
cember number of the Botanical Gazette. 
Mr. R. C. Faulwetter, of Columbia University, has been ap- 
pointed plant pathologist of the Agricultural Experiment Station 
of South Carolina at Clemson College. 
Professor Paul Sorauer, of the University of Berlin, widely 
known for his work on plant pathology, recently died at the age 
of seventy-seven years. 
Professor H. H. Whetzel, of the department of plant pathol- 
ogy, Cornell University, and Dr. E. W. Olive, of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden, sailed for Porto Rico on February 19 to study 
fungi and plant diseases. 
Mr. Irving E. Melhus, formerly pathologist in the Bureau of 
Plant Industry at Washington, is now associate professor of plant 
pathology in the Iowa State College, at Ames, Iowa. 
Dr. J. J. Taubenhaus, associate plant pathologist of the Dela- 
ware Agricultral Experiment Station, has accepted the position 
of head plant pathologist and physiologist at the Agricultural 
Experiment Station, College Station, Texas. 
At the meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists held 
at the University of Illinois at the end of December, Dr. Thomas 
J. Burrill, formerly vice-president of the university, was elected 
president of the society for the coming year. 
Dr. W. J. Robbins, instructor in botany in the New York 
State College of Agriculture, has been appointed botanist in the 
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