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Alabama Polytechnic Institute to fill the vacancy made by the 
resignation of Dr. J. S. Caldwell, who has been called to the 
Washington Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Miss Mary K. Bryan has found that the nasturtium is subject to 
a bacterial wilt disease, which prevents blossoming, stunts the 
plants, and finally kills them. The causal organism is Bacterium 
solanacearum Erw. Sm. Miss Bryan’s results were published in 
the Journal of Agricultural Research of August i6, 1915- 
Associate Professor H. P. Barss has been promoted to be pro- 
fessor of botany and plant pathology at the Oregon Agricultural 
College in place of Professor H. S. Jackson, who recently re- 
signed to accept the position of plant pathologist at Purdue Uni- 
versity. 
“A Honeycomb Heart-rot of Oaks Caused by Stereum sub- 
pileatum,” by W. H. Long, appeared in the Journal of Agricul- 
tural Research of December 6, 1915. The disease is rather widely 
distributed in the southern United States and is one of the im- 
portant heart-rots of our native oaks. The only known method 
of control is the destructfon of all diseased timber containing the 
rot. 
A bulletin on the “ Phytophthora Disease of Ginseng,” by Joseph. 
Rosenbaum, was published by the Department of Plant Pathology 
of Cornell University in October, 1915. The fungus is said to 
resemble most closely Phytophthora cactorum (Cohn & Leb.) 
Schrot. The suggested methods of control include spraying, re- 
moval of diseased plants, deep planting, crop rotation, sterilization 
of the soil, and drainage. 
The officers for the Botanical Society of America for the com- 
ing year are: President, R. A. Harper; Vice-President, G. T. 
Moore; Treasurer, Arthur Hollick ; Secretary, H. H. Bartlett. 
The society voted to eliminate the class of membership heretofore 
known as fellows, but failed to create a class of honorary member- 
ship as outlined in a proposed amendment to the constitution. 
