NEWS AND NOTES 
Dr. Adeline Ames has been appointed assistant forest patholo- 
gist in the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington. 
Mr. E. L. Morris, of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 
ences, was elected editor-in-chief of the publications of the Torrey 
Botanical Club at the annual meeting held January 14. 
Dr. Neil E. Stevens, formerly pathologist at the Kansas Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, has been appointed forest patholo- 
gist in the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington. 
Professor B. M. Duggar, formerly of the College of Agriculture 
at Cornell University, has recently been appointed physiologist at 
the Missouri Botanical Garden and has charge of the graduate 
laboratory. 
Dr. Anton R. Rose, formerly of the department of biological 
chemistry of Columbia University, has been employed by the New 
Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station to carry on investigations 
bearing on the relation of tannin to the chestnut blight. 
Hiltner has recently treated chlorosis in fruit-trees and vines 
( Prakt. Bl. PHanzbau u. Schutz 10: 49-51. 1912) by introducing 
iron and other elements in soluble form through holes bored into 
the trunks. 
A bacterial disease of walnut trees in Tasmania is reported and 
described by L. Rodway (Agr. Gaz. Tasmania 20; 85, 86. 1912 ) 
as appearing on the nuts and leaves in small black spots and so 
weakening the tree that death results in a few years. 
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