NEWS AND NOTES 
The autumn meeting of the New York State Forestry Associa- 
tion was held at the Garden on October 17. 
Dr. Ralph Jones has resigned from the Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry at Washington to become professor of botany at Emory 
College, Oxford, Georgia. 
Professor W. C. Sturgis, formerly of the Connecticut Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station and now connected with Colorado 
College, visited the Garden October 15. 
Mr. S. R. Winston, formerly assistant in plant pathology at the 
North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, has been ap- 
pointed plant pathologist at the Hood River Branch Experiment 
Station in Oregon. 
Mr. H. L. Rees has moved to the Western Washington Experi- 
ment Station, and Mr. G. H. Godfrey now fills the position vacated 
by Mr. Rees at the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Professor Adolf Engler, director of the Berlin Botanic Garden 
and senior author of the well-known systematic work on natural 
plant families, spent October 17 at the Garden, and met most of 
the local botanists socially in the evening at a dinner given in 
his honor. 
Dr. E. D. Clark, known to the readers of Mycologia for his 
chemical investigations of the poisonous properties of certain 
fungi, has resigned his position in the Cornell Medical College 
to accept one in the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington. 
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