NEWS AND NOTES 
Dr. Neil E. Stevens has been appointed forest pathologist in 
the Kansas Experiment Station. 
The Simmons Bill, a national law regulating the importation of 
nursery stock, became effective October i, 1912. 
Miss A. E. Jenkins has been appointed scientific assistant in 
the pathological herbarium of the Bureau of Plant Industry at 
Washington. 
A series of articles on “ Edible Toadstools ” is being contributed 
by Mr. McCubbin, of Guelph, to the Ontario Natural Science 
Bulletin. 
Several new species of bacteria causing diseases of orchids were 
recently described by G. L. Pavarino (Atti R. Accad. Lincei V. 
20:233-237. 1911). 
A course in city forestry is being offered by the New York 
State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, including a 
thorough course in forest pathology. 
Mr. J. S. Cooley, assistant in plant pathology at the Virginia 
Agricultural Experiment Station, has a fellowship at the Missouri 
Botanical Garden this year. 
Dr. Harry B. Humphrey, for three years professor of plant 
pathology in the State College of Washington, has been advanced 
to the position of head of the department of botany. 
The Japanese chestnut has been found by A. Prunet, at Lindois, 
to be highly resistant, if not immune, to the black canker or root 
disease so fatal to the European chestnut. 
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